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/nuz/ - Nuzlocke and Challenge Run General

Anonymous Sat 29 Apr 2023 22:41:28 No.53720159 View View Reply Original Report

GALAR Edition

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

/nuz/ resources
Mostly outdated, but if I add something new it will have (Updated) somewhere in it. Let me know if there's something that needs updated if you have something to replace it with.
Nuzlocke info
https://pastebin.com/8b3rHGuX
>Nuzlocke generator
https://nuzlocke-generator.herokuapp.com/
http://nuzlocke-generator.com/
>Guide to running the generator locally
https://pastebin.com/etNFB00r
>Links to official games (thru Sw/Sh)
https://pastebin.com/hsJ0TaJ7
>Romhack links
https://pastebin.com/GzWfs9Bz
https://pastebin.com/GfJ9zhqx
>Definitive emulator info (note that OpenEmu is the best option for Macfags period as RBY through B2W2 may all be played on it and all run smoothly)
https://pastebin.com/HmVC99sZ
>Difficulty list
https://pastebin.com/vvwTEgwJ
>Pokémon Nuzlocke images
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sxu318m9an5ulbm/
>Pokémon Bank sprites
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ueadxvt1f52m0md/
>Pokémon Home Sprites
https://projectpokemon.org/docs/spriteindex_148/home-sprites-gen-1-r128/
>Additional templates
http://www.mediafire.com/file/vmfck3jdowgn472
>(UPDATED)Anon's Level Caps Doc
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZOwQ2MnzKF-fJuSGEkTUIenGbPoZymS6jYrY6zIbzkk/edit#gid=1752410600
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Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 29 Apr 2023 22:44:11 No.53720175 Report

Quoted By: >>53720734 >>53721260

I saw it anon. You can't hide your shame

storyanon

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storyanon Sat 29 Apr 2023 23:53:22 No.53720667 Report

Quoted By: >>53720718 >>53720744 >>53721987

thank god for the great marsh and the developers not thinking ahead far enough to program in flee rates for mon outside of its original encounter set >:)

Ronja

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Ronja Sun 30 Apr 2023 00:01:58 No.53720718 Report

Quoted By: >>53720744 >>53721987 >>53723566 >>53724184 >>53724239

The 5-6-7 trio of gyms has been conquered (as well as the Rocket HQ), Barbara making a mockery of Chuck and Pryce while Jambo and Moose Goose The Caboose did a solid tag-team against Jasmine. Now to see if we can't finish up Johto with this momentum we've got going!

>>53720667
Hell yeah, looks like you've got a nice core to work with there, hopefully no more (major) bullshit befalls you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 00:05:42 No.53720734 Report

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>>53720175
somehow inteleon always manages to look good with any kind of clothing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 00:06:56 No.53720744 Report

Quoted By: >>53723566 >>53725072

>>53720667
Just saw all your deaths in the last thread, holy shit dude. This team shows promise though.
>>53720718
Based Politoed, this is a really solid team in general. Good luck with Clair's pain in the ass Kingdra, but Barbara should handle it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 01:47:48 No.53721260 Report

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>>53720175
cringe art

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 04:23:20 No.53721987 Report

Quoted By: >>53723566 >>53724239 >>53725072 >>53727611

>Crit Pursuit leaves Poseiden on 1 HP
>Sigilyph only avoids slaughtering my team on route 10 because it used Whirlwind
The only good place to train my team on route 8, and even that has it's risks qith Foul Play Inkay and Pursuit Zangoose and Absol. Reposting the previous image since i haven't gone that far from Ambrette Town.
>>53720667
I don't know how you have the will to keep going, i'd be seething hard if i lost three teams worth to all the bullshit you're getting. Maybe consider only randomising encounters for a run, if only for your sanity.
>>53720718
Very nice team, that's the most use i've seen a Ledian ever get.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 05:29:34 No.53722270 Report

Quoted By: >>53722435 >>53724239

Am doing a HGSS nuzlocke together with my nephews. Just got wiped to witney, because my 30-31 attack IV geodude got triple consecutive flinched followed by a crit by the miltank. My nephews allowed me to continue because they thought it would be incredibly funny to see if I could salvage the run.
At this point, my box consists of magikarp, hoppip and zubat, because I killed all my duplicate encounters. The only encounters I had left were at the 1st gym, the unknown ruins, the second gym and slowpoke well (repelled that, because slowpoke is garanteed with surf). I had to voltorb flip to get a sandshrew, which I was only allowed to use for HMs, not headbutt. So, to get headbutt, I either had to get a slowpoke at slowpoke well (15%), or fish for a poliwag at unknown ruins (15%) or the 1st gym (15%). Did manage to get a poliwag, so I went to headbutt a tree at the 2nd gym.
Ended up with a lvl 4 spearow encounter, which meant that it was a tree that contained the 30% heracross encounters, I just didn't get it.
Wish me good luck, I'm gonna grind this team, to beat the trainers north of goldenrod to gamble for a nidoran/stantler.
Also, magikarp is useless, because of the lvl 19 cap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 06:18:22 No.53722435 Report

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>>53722270
That is gonna be rough as hell, good luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 10:53:44 No.53723026 Report

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>start a randomised soul link with a friend for radical red
>get to falkner
>playing blind, don't have a lot of good options, decide to have zorua at the front, disguised as honedge so I know that a fairy, bug or fighting move aint coming turn 1.
>turn 1 falkner's rufflet uses rocksmash instead of the aerial ace I later looked up and saw it had

You have no idea how much I'm seething at this. Good to know illusion just does not work in this romhack.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 11:40:56 No.53723131 Report

Quoted By: >>53723520

just failed at a gen V nuzlocke, do I try alola (vanilla non ultra) or Galar next?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 14:25:20 No.53723520 Report

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>>53723131
I vote Alola. Good Pokémon distribution and you don't need to deal with the wild area at all.

storyanon

storyanon Sun 30 Apr 2023 14:38:36 No.53723566 Report

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>>53720718
>>53720744
haha, thanks. I'm not holding my breath that they'll last long, but I'm really hoping that they do.

>>53721987
And if you saw the last thread, I can tell you with absolute certainty that I was seething like a madman lmfao. I think the only reason I'm still going at this point is genuine attachment to Covie and my sheer hatred for the game.
I hadn't even considered not randomizing trainers before because in my head I was already being "really light" on the randomization, to the point where I was questioning if it was even a randomizer anymore, but at this point I think I'm at the absolute minimum going to leave trainers in Kalos untouched. Maybe Unova too- possibly not, because fuck that Hydreigon and everything it stands for.
And also because I've played through Unova twice very recently and want a shake-up. Not to mention that grinding for the tougher story fights will be a pain without consistent Audino...

storyanon

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storyanon Sun 30 Apr 2023 16:56:16 No.53724108 Report

Quoted By: >>53724122 >>53724239 >>53732872

>>53718460
Huh. This... wasn't Veilstone...

That was the main thought going through Percival's mind as he stepped through wild grass, eventually stumbling upon a small hill with resort-like houses scattered atop it.

The map he'd been given said there was a shortcut to get there, and the grunt had taken it. Maybe he should've known better.

He sure thought he should've.
He had lost... so much going this route. An entire team. Dead. His Jolteon, his Metang, his Budew- all gone. And the Barboach, Magmar, Krabby- them, too. He'd even lost the poor Weedle he was bringing along with him just to take care of environmental hazards.

It was beginning to weigh on the grunt. If you lost one hammer, it wasn't that bad. But if your garage set on fire? Then it was maybe reasonable to weep.
That was how Percival justified his reactions, at least.

Covie now clung to him like a scared child would. He himself was more wary than stepping in the grass than ever. None of the Pokémon he faced seem to make sense. Only about half were even native to Sinnoh. Had the invasive population seriously overrun the locals that fast...?

Percival shook his head. No, that couldn't be the case. The invasion couldn't just be getting... more severe over time...
...that was dumb. Of course it was getting more severe, the longer the invaders stayed the longer they had to grow their numbers.
Even trainers were using them, now. Sunflora and Wynaut and Mudkip- all nonnative, but mon that he'd fought on his journey regardless.

This plan was beginning to fall apart a little. There was no way Percival would be able to get it done with even more losses. And... he could deal with that, he said. He'd just need to put in even more effort to train newer mon. He'd be losing a lot of valuable experience by continuing to lose as many mon as he had now.

storyanon

storyanon Sun 30 Apr 2023 16:59:17 No.53724122 Report

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>>53724108
So, what was his first solution?
Well, this city had a Safari Zone. Safari Zones often had stronger-than-usual Pokémon in them. If he could substitute what would've been his own careful training with wild experience, then that would save him a lot of time training. Stronger catches would mean an initially-stronger team. That was a good idea.

So, he went through with the plan...
...and after a fair bit of hardship, fighting off attacks from wild Gabite and Pupitar alike, he came out of the Great Marsh with a solid-enough team to pull him through most battles.
Adding that bounty to the two Pokémon that had started following him earlier allowed Percival to settle on a decent selection of mon to train...

...yes, these'd do.
The grunt resolved to train this core of six as best he could. None would be donated to Galactic, nor lost at his hands. He would train them, and he would beat the champion with them. That would be that. And afterwards, he could report to Cyrus a job well done.

Maybe he'd get to complain about the team-issued map along the way? Who knew.

With that in mind, Percival now had a hardcore goal. And so, he took on the nearest gym and continued on his journey!

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Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 17:15:03 No.53724184 Report

Quoted By: >>53724239 >>53725072 >>53729861 >>53739672

Back at it again with the wedlocke.

>Galactic HQ Cyrus
Dandelion just Thunder Fanged everything.

>Saturn
Chartreuse used Psycho Cut on Golbat and Toxicroak and Fire Punch on Bronzor.

>Mars and Jupiter 12v6
I honestly forgot how a lot of this battle went, except for using Pomelo and Carob.

>Distortion World Cyrus
Thinking he led with something not named Houndoom, Pomelo switches into Carob who takes a Flamethrower and sets up pebbles. Will-o-Wisp misses once as I set up a Rock Polish and attack with Earthquake. Cyyrus then switches out to Gyarados, causing me to switch back to Pomelo. Pomelo takes a Waterfall and KOs Gyara with a +2 Wing Attack, before switching back to Houndoom who dies to Stealth Rock? (Honestly don't know what the AI was thinking.) At plus one Honchkrow barely survives a Bullet Punch and kills with a Heat Wave. Carob revenge kills, but dies to Gyara's waterfall after I used all the items I could on the pair previously. Dandelion finished everything else off with T-Fang.

>Volkner
Azure oneshot everything with Earthquake.

>>53720718
Curious, how good even is Ledian in Gen 2?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 17:27:02 No.53724239 Report

Quoted By: >>53724582 >>53725072 >>53726015 >>53727881

Guess who is back with the same track?

>Last time on POKÉMON ORAS nuZlocke
A rather uneventful Roxanne fight, with Strelok absolutely bodying her without any real effort. For the 8th Hoenn run in a row, I forget that while Swellow can wreck ass, Taillow cannot and my Taillow died, for the 8th time in a row, to a fighting type in a gym. Brawly was a bit scary, since Makuhita hit hard even before he bulked up. Thank the gods for Dustox, eh?

Current mood? Scared as fuck because May 2 and Wattson are pretty scary, especially since I dont have a ground-fren (yet) and May 2 generally takes me up the ass.
>>53720718
Really neat team! Hows Sad Handy? I'm itching to use an Aipom, but never got one that was usable.
>>53721987
Honestly, the post-Viola slog is already nigh-unbearable, but the lack of safe grinding options make it even worse. That and Sigilyph and Hawlucha on the same fucking route is so mean. Cool gimmick, a Kalos only run. Also even worse than a fucking mono-type. Genuinely, how many routes only have old pokémon?
>>53722270
I believe in you, Anon.
>>53724108
Oh neat, Storyanon is ba-
>Death list
Jesus christ. Major props to you for not breaking your PC in half, what the fuck.

>>53724184
Cool team! Do you see Dandelion as the ace? Or does someone else have that luxury?

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Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 18:48:46 No.53724582 Report

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>>53724239
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R names
Good luck!

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storyanon Sun 30 Apr 2023 19:28:40 No.53724740 Report

Quoted By: >>53724980 >>53725072 >>53726015 >>53727881

I don't understand how this run is still alive

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 20:16:02 No.53724980 Report

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>>53724740
Your B/W2 run is going to be a massacre.... Please tell me Crobat didnt croak

storyanon

storyanon Sun 30 Apr 2023 20:29:26 No.53725048 Report

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>>53724980
It's a good thing I'm skipping BW2 then lol
I'll probably just play BW... which, to be fair, really isn't much better (I'd actually argue it's much harder than BW2, at multiple points)
and nope, Crobat didn't croak. Covie's weird penchant for being the only one who remains alive has thankfully struck again

Ronja

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Ronja Sun 30 Apr 2023 20:34:30 No.53725072 Report

Quoted By: >>53725870 >>53727881

I ended up skipping over the Clair update since nothing had really changed since the last update and Barbara ended up just sweeping her anyway, and...yeah, she kinda just swept her way past the league as well. Will, Koga, Bruno and Lance all fell before her feet with almost no resistance, Lance's Charizard lived on a literal pixel of HP, but Barbara ate its Hyper Beam like it was nothing and quickly fell it too. Karen was a little more of a switcheroo, Sad Handy, Pitsa and Moose Goose The Caboose working together to take her down.

Now we're bound for Kanto, which will most likely just be a short victory lap, the only one that could hope to stand in our way is Blue, but even he shouldn't be too much of an issue

>>53720744
>Based Politoed, this is a really solid team in general. Good luck with Clair's pain in the ass Kingdra, but Barbara should handle it.
Thank you, and yeah, you ended up being right on the money!

>>53721987
Wishing you a safe grind, remember that you can get a Water Stone and Shiny Stone from Super Training should you wish to pursue that!

>Very nice team, that's the most use i've seen a Ledian ever get.

>>53724184
>Curious, how good even is Ledian in Gen 2?

I'm consistently surprised by how decent Ledian is in Gen 2, it's by no means great, but it makes for a fantastic cleaner since it can come in on a lot of different attacks and finish off weakened mons as long as one of its two attacks are SE (which they usually are)

>>53724239
>I forget that while Swellow can wreck ass, Taillow cannot
Oof, yeah, can definitely relate to that, I've definitely overestimated Taillow plenty myself

>Hows Sad Handy?
He's been really good! He's basically been the exact same as Miltank from my last run except a little more frail, but Gen 2 is thankfully quite forgiving. I really don't like Ambipom, so I'm eager to champ Aipom while he's still useful

>>53724740
Woof, that is one cursed run, I think you need to burn some sage around your device or something

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 21:39:02 No.53725400 Report

Quoted By: >>53725440 >>53726015 >>53800330

managed to get this fucker in wayward cave in my plat run. i’m just wondering if he’s worth putting on the team right away or if i should wait until he’s better. my priority is keeping him alive at all costs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 21:47:09 No.53725440 Report

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>>53725400
Add it for when you reach the last gym, don't risk it beforehand.

Ronja

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Ronja Sun 30 Apr 2023 22:49:09 No.53725831 Report

Quoted By: >>53726015

Damnit
Damnit
God fucking damnit
We were so close to a perfect run, but I just had to run into the final Blue fight prematurely
"Surely nothing can go wrong"
"Surely Sad Handy will have enough stat exp to outspeed Blue's Alakazam after outspeeding Sabrina's"
Here lieth Sad Handy, another victim of Nuzlocker's Hubris

I'm ready to get this shit over with, time to dump our remaining Rare Candies into Jambo and run a train on Red

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Apr 2023 22:57:14 No.53725870 Report

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>>53725072
>using healing items
>no levels caps

LMFAO

I bet you spam stat increase moves as well

AKIN

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AKIN Sun 30 Apr 2023 23:24:39 No.53726015 Report

Quoted By: >>53726392 >>53727881

Beat Maylene! On the way there, tragically, Gale got crit by a trainer's Murkrow when I thought it was surely out of KO range. Really undersold Murkrow's attack, thought it was much lower. At least it was able to be laid to rest where it fell; rest in peace ol' girl.
One new addition steps in, Jubilee the Blissey. If I can hold onto Blissey until I get Toxic, this run will be made a lot easier so people might object to using it, but hey, my run and it's banned after this, so fair game I say.
As for Maylene, her first two Pokemon fell quickly to Luna, but some Leer defense drops made me have to switch around. I swapped to Sidd once Lucario came in, but a Bone Rush almost killed him. I then swapped to Atlas, and some Curse boosts allowed Atlas to tank the Lucario; a swap to Supa Soaker and an Aqua Jet is enough to bring it down. Badge secured!

>>53725831
RIP to Aipom, at least it's saved for Gen IV and onwards. Great team, another anon understands the power of Johto Golem.
>>53725400
Saving Pokémon just to evolve them later never sits well with me, but that's probably the right move to do so. I just don't like to play that way if I plan on using it regardless, but I know that's needlessly risky. Consider it a handicap. But at least Garchomp is one of the earliest evolutions of the pseudos; you can actually use it at the 8th gym!
>>53724740
>22 deaths
Hold the faith anon, my Yellow run was a massacre.
>>53724239
Based STALKER enjoyer.

Ronja

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Ronja Mon 01 May 2023 00:34:36 No.53726392 Report

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And that's that. Took the time to get Jambo up a few levels before dumping the rest of our Rare Candies into him, allowing him to take on Red and finish the journey. I wasn't sure what to put in our last slot, not a whole lot left that I wouldn't want to have as backup options, but one that came to mind was Delibird, and thankfully I managed to get it, saving me the trouble of looking for something else. A bit of a whiplash near the end there, hopefully Crystal will be a bit more balanced

>>53726015
Nice going, that Lucario can be quite the menace! Glad to see that Luna is still putting in good work, I have a soft spot for Dustox and I'm always happy to see people letting it shine

>RIP to Aipom, at least it's saved for Gen IV and onwards. Great team, another anon understands the power of Johto Golem.
Yee, I kinda had hoped to avoid Gen 4 Aipom, not being a huge fan of Ambipom, but I suppose this is a sign for me to reconsider. And yeah, don't think there's any place Golem shines better than in Gen 2, the thing's a beast!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 00:57:07 No.53726507 Report

Quoted By: >>53726533 >>53727881 >>53729962

Time for the Final battle of my Violet Nuzlocke!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 01:01:29 No.53726533 Report

Quoted By: >>53726561 >>53727881 >>53729962 >>53732828

>>53726507
>Vs AI Turo
>Iron Moth
I start off with Douce Dame to bait the Moth into using Fiery Dance, switching in Bonny Lass and getting the Flash Fire boost.
The moth next hits Bonny with a Discharge, but Covert Cloak keeps any risk of paralysis at bay, and Bonny uses Flame Charge.
Two turns of Bulk Up and Discharges brings Bonny slightly into the red(I took the risk of a crit here, but the reward is about to be worth it big time)
I terastal Bonny and take the Moth out with Bitter Blade.
>Iron Thorns
Close Combat wipes it out.
>Iron Bundle, Iron Jugulis, Iron Hands and Iron Valiant
All of them fall to Bitter Blade, and the Nuzlocke is officially done!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 01:05:26 No.53726561 Report

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>>53726533
This is probably my favorite Nuzlocke team. Actually drawing them a lot rather than just once really does help. A lot more work and I'm probably gonna be too lazy to do this all that often.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 01:09:14 No.53726580 Report

Quoted By: >>53732828

>>53726561
Might continue my long abandoned Sun playthrough next, or start an entirely new one.
Maybe a Wedlocke?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 04:23:15 No.53727611 Report

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>>53721987
Very quick update. I'm about to challange Cyllage Gym, everyone is trained up, wish me luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 05:29:05 No.53727881 Report

Quoted By: >>53727886 >>53728621 >>53729318

>>53727611
Well that was anticlimactic.
>Lead with Poseiden with Cherri Berry hoping Amaura starts with Thunder Wave
>Rock Tomb instead, do over half with Scald
>Thunder Wave comes out, Cherri Berry heals it and Amaura is KO'd
>Not risking Poseiden, switch into Loretta to chip Tyrunt down with Mud Shot for Shelly
>Loretta almost two shots Tyrunt, heal on Grant's heal to not risk an outsped crit Bite
>She's bulky enough to tank Rock Tomb and secure the KO
I don't think this would have gone as well if i hadn't noticed that Diggersby is a speedy mixed tank earlier. That speed, plus the resistance Ground provides, kept Tyrunt using Rock Tomb instead of Bite, which probably would have saved me a heal, but whatever. I'll confess Poseidon leveled up past the cap thanks to a Pokefan i accidentally battled on route 10, but i'm not that torn up about it, i'm pretty sure he would have two shot Amaura regardless. I also actually managed to keep a Seviper alive while i was training on route 8, so it's now the designated Rock Smash user.
>>53724239
>Cool gimmick, a Kalos only run.
I thought so, apparently GameFreak didn't because i'm getting the impression they didn't want you to use Kalos Pokémon. I see you decided to go all in on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R theme.
>Danila
Sad loss, but the name is really fitting
>>53724740
What the hell is going on with those trainers? Are they self aware?
>>53725072
>remember that you can get a Water Stone and Shiny Stone from Super Training should you wish to pursue that!
Already bought one from Lumiose City, but i think i'll super train for the shiny stone since i can get any move i want on Shelly from the relearner, and as already said i have a dedicated Rock Smash user, so grinding Heart Scales isn't an issue.
>>53726015
Is Gale the Staravia? I think you added her to the champs instead of the graveyard.
>>53726507
>>53726533
>>53726561
Based Jock Mcgraw.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 05:30:16 No.53727886 Report

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>>53727881
Dropped this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 07:18:31 No.53728208 Report

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Night bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 07:41:35 No.53728264 Report

Quoted By: >>53728273

Is there a gen 3 game/romhack that's especially good for this? Was thinking of just going FireRed or LeafGreen if not. Haven't done one of these in a very long time

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 07:43:46 No.53728273 Report

Quoted By: >>53728504

>>53728264
Some people suggest stuff like Radical Red and Inclement Emerald and all that nonsense, but I'd suggest you go with a classic vanilla game if you haven't done many Nuzlockes yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 09:43:36 No.53728502 Report

Quoted By: >>53728621

>pick Charmander, bank on getting Mankey from Route 22 before Brock
>Spearow
I'm really stupid sometimes. Guess I'm going to have to grind for Metal Claw if Route 3 doesn't give me one

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 09:44:37 No.53728504 Report

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>>53728273
Thank you, just wanted to make sure there isn't some "oh yeah this is the one that's the best for it" romhack or something like that. Just going to do Leaf Green

Ronja

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Ronja Mon 01 May 2023 10:47:58 No.53728621 Report

Quoted By: >>53728631 >>53729861 >>53729962

Crystal is off to an interesting start, at least team-wise. Jiggalug the Phanpy was a guaranteed encounter on Route 46 thanks to Champ Clause, and we managed to get him before he managed to skitter away. Gertrude the Hoppip was more of a lucky shot, managing to get her on the 5% Route 30 slot before seeing a single Caterpie (but somehow seeing two 5% Weedles before that)
Falkner had a rare moment where he was actually a little spooky in Gen 2, hitting Jiggalug harder than I had anticipated, but thankfully his levels were low enough to where we managed to just barely pull through still. Not quite sure what I'll do against Bugsy's Scyther, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it

>>53726561
Congrats on your victory! Your drawings are always a ray of sunshine in these threads

>>53727881
Nice going! Yeah Diggersby is definitely quite helpful at that point in the game, it might fall off later on, but for right now I can imagine having a bulky mon in the surprisingly ruthless Kalos is a good thing

>>53728502
Woof, yeah you might be SOL on that one, maybe a Butterfree with Confusion/Sleep Powder could be helpful if you managed to get Caterpie on Route 2/Viridian Forest

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 10:51:06 No.53728631 Report

Quoted By: >>53728689

>>53728621
Unfortunately I lost that save completely due to a mixup trying to get into an emulator menu. I had gotten to Pewter with a Caterpie and some other stuff but now I'm back at the start. At least now I know what the correct input is so I won't lose another save the same way. The Spearow was actually putting in some work so I'm kind of annoyed.

Ronja

Ronja Mon 01 May 2023 11:10:17 No.53728689 Report

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>>53728631
Aw man, that blows, at least it was relatively early on
Hopefully this run will be blessed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 11:47:01 No.53728762 Report

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Ok, starting my 7th attempt of platinum. Wish me luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 14:55:02 No.53729316 Report

Quoted By: >>53729489 >>53729861 >>53729883 >>53730931

What's the best fossil for platinum? I'm torn between anorith, aerodactyl or cranidos. Kabuto and Omanyte are too weak to grass, and lileep is not offensive enough to my tastes...

storyanon

storyanon Mon 01 May 2023 14:55:26 No.53729318 Report

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>>53727881
dude, I have no idea
at this point I'm tempted to believe they are
that, or the game is sentient and actively attempting to fuck me over

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 15:33:36 No.53729489 Report

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>>53729316
i was going to argue armaldo since it finally gets good bug stab in x-scissor and still has rock slide and got stone miss, and is crit-proof, but then I look at the league and think that aero has some key resistances that armaldo doesn't have like vs flint, outspeeds everything in the league, and with crunch, rock slide (or stone miss), dragon claw, and earthquake it bodies aaron, flint, lucian sans bronzong, and
can reasonably take on cynthia's togekiss, lucario, and garchomp

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 17:01:12 No.53729861 Report

Quoted By: >>53729962 >>53731249 >>53732235 >>53732828 >>53740868 >>53741834 >>53741846

>>53724184
And Platinum is complete.

>Final Barry
Phlox took care of Staraptor, Torterra and Rapidash. Dandelion took care of Snorlax, Heracross and Rapidash.

>Aaron
Ecru 1-2HKO'd majority of his team, Chartreuse finished Scizor with a Fire Punch

>Bertha
Azure took care of most of her team, but because of Solid Rock, failed to kill Rhyperior and killed her and Slate quickly. Chartreuse finished with a Leaf Blade.

>Flint
Chartreuse took out Houndoom, Ecru Air Slashed Rapidash and Infernape, Chartreuse barely survived Magmortar's Flamethrower and Brick Breaked him and Flareon.

>Lucian
Ecru yawns Mr. Mime and switches to Chartreuse as he sets up screens. Brick Break and Leaf Blade take care of him. Ecru's Flamethrower takes care of Bronzong and Air Slash barely knocks out his Gallade, who retailates with a crit Stone Edge. Chartreuse revenge kills with a Psycho Cut and also finishes Espeon and Alakazam.

>Cynthia
This was crazy. Dandelion T-Fangs Spiritomb a few times, but Shadow Ball knocks out the final member of the original 6. Gengar comes in, kills Spiritomb and barely kills Milotic, until I am left with just Chartreuse. Chartreuse sets up to +6, tanks Milotic's attacks and gets back to full with Drain Punch. I pretty much sweep from there, Garchomp though, survives on 1HP and Cynthia does not heal as I Psycho Cut.

Gallade was one of my top 3 favorite Pokemon before this, but damn, I love 'em even more.

>>53726561
Congrats! Great drawings too.

>>53728621
Gertrude has that killer stare. I sense great things from her.

>>53729316
Out of all of those, only Cranidos is available before post-game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 17:05:00 No.53729883 Report

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>>53729316
Cranidos for the sole fact that you can't get any other fossils until after the national dex, unless you're playing a hack that changes that.

AKIN

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AKIN Mon 01 May 2023 17:26:44 No.53729962 Report

Quoted By: >>53731249 >>53732235

A short trip to Pastoria City, and we've now got the Fen Badge! Wake wasn't too much of a problem; after the Gyarados was dismantled by pivoting between Atlas, Luna, and Supa Soaker, the rest of Wake's team didn't stand a chance to Atlas. (Side note, I'm not sure why his Floatzel never used Ice Fang on Atlas. Maybe the internal calcs told the game Brine would do more? Baffling to me.)
Sadly, we weren't quite finished yet, and I made a big mistake. I seriously underestimated my rival's Monferno and we lost Sidd to a Flame Wheel. Stupid move on my part because I could've just used Supa Soaker against it, but I was more scared of the Fighting STAB for some reason. RIP Sidd. At the very least, this opens up some team options. Stepping in immediately will be Hippolyta the Heracross who was a lucky find on a honey tree outside of Hearthome, and once she's trained up, we'll add Do-Re-Mi the Bronzor as a replacement for Bucky. He's done well so far, but we're getting to that point where he'll be power crept out.

>>53729861
Goddamn absolute clutch shit from Chartreuse. What a king. Congrats on the dub!
>>53728621
Nice, you've got two Pokémon that'll be hard early on but will develop really well. Don't sleep on Jumpluff, it's really useful as a utility team member!
>>53726507
>>53726533
>>53726561
JOCK MCGRAW WITH THE WIN! Hope to see you around more Drawanon.

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 20:01:30 No.53730631 Report

Quoted By: >>53735190

Well, my route 35 and 36 encounters were a drowzee and a hoot hoot. I had a strat to lead the drowzee against clefairy with taunt to avoid the errant dragon rage/hyper beams from metronome. And then get at least 1 hypnosis attempt against the miltank to burn the lum berry, before saccing it to switch in the poliwag to put the cow to sleep with 2 hypnosis attempts. But I'm not confident in that one, because this drowzee is so bad. It's got a -def nature and less than 4 def ivs. It's almost a bad joke how frail this thing is on the defensive side.
Just a reminder that nidorans are 60% encounters in both routes and they would have been so much more useful with double kick. I'm going to attempt the bug catching contest tomorrow. If I can catch a weedle/scyther/pinsir, I can try to make a substitute swords dance set work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 20:56:38 No.53730931 Report

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>>53729316
I'd get Shelldon since you can only get the Sinnoh ones before the National dex, and I like to have a reliable tank when nuzlocking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 21:00:19 No.53730952 Report

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I shall add an emergency clause into my encounter rules that only allows female combee

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 21:21:24 No.53731083 Report

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Current platinum team. Just beat cyrus in the distortion world where i luckily only had to sacrifice roserade. Gonna have to decide what to replace it with.

Nicknames are decided by random wikipedia articles by the way

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 21:33:58 No.53731176 Report

Quoted By: >>53731198 >>53732235 >>53733197

Started a Platinum Nuzlocke.
I've had a breeze of a start with getting past the first gym with my team consisting of:

>Turtwig
>Bibarel
>Machop
>Zubat

Machop Karate Chopped through the gym and the now we are in Floroma Town. Caught a Shellos.

I'm aware the Purugly fight is coming up so any suggestions or advice?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 21:36:47 No.53731198 Report

Quoted By: >>53747770

>>53731176
throw pluck on the zubat if you haven't already since it's good flying stab strictly better than wing attack, and steals the oran berry it has

Ronja

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Ronja Mon 01 May 2023 21:44:22 No.53731249 Report

Quoted By: >>53732235 >>53732828 >>53733197

Bugsy down! Wasn't quite sure about adding Shower Thot the Venonat to the team, but he really came in clutch against Bugsy, dealing with his two cocoons easily, switching in to Gertrude to let her soften his Scyther up and then coming back in to finish it off with Swift as it did minimal damage back

>>53729861
>Gertrude has that killer stare. I sense great things from her.
>>53729962
>Don't sleep on Jumpluff, it's really useful as a utility team member!
Oh I'm definitely expecting great things from Gertrude, I have a long history with the Hoppip family and she's already living up to the legacy

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 21:46:14 No.53731265 Report

Quoted By: >>53731327 >>53733197

I don't think Mt Moon is going to be kind to me. Hopefully I can pick up something decent there at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 21:56:42 No.53731327 Report

Quoted By: >>53731611

>>53731265
if you feel like gambling get a 'mon to exactly level 12 and repel your way down to the 2nd subfloor. your possible encounters are paras and clefairy at a ~2.5:1 odds if i'm doing my math right, otherwise just take your lumps on the first floor to minimize the paras chance. graveler is fantastic for the first giovanni fight against his kangaskhan

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 22:52:05 No.53731611 Report

Quoted By: >>53732143 >>53732235

>>53731327
Unfortunately I got a Zubat. Realizing as I look at my team more that Misty is probably going to destroy me unless I get lucky after the cave, too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 23:46:51 No.53731902 Report

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>Pokefan on route 10 switched out Pachirisu for Hippopotas
Since when could they do that? And why is that still more threatening than the gym leaders so far.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:26:39 No.53732129 Report

Quoted By: >>53732235

>>53698999
So yeah, I lost to Ghetsis, his bullshit Hydreigon outsped my Archeops, killing any hopes I might've had of completing this white nuzlocke. I can't help but feel I could've done much better quite easily so I'll try again after trying my hand at Black 2.

A first attempt at this was catastrophic, I was bleeding bros from the very beginning due to crits bypassing enemies with crippled attack, and some forgetfulness with berries, and not really getting the best encounters (Purrloin, Patrat, Pidove, Azurill before the second gym + Snivy) That said Azurill was surprisingly great, and the only survivor post second gym, but just before I could let him become an Azumarill, another ENVIOUS Marill's rollout sealed my fate.

I'm on my second attempt now, and the previous run's experience + massive luck in the gym battles let me get past the early game without any deaths, though sadly that would change soon. For instance, when battling Burgh, I don't quite understand how it makes any sense for the Leavanny to do 18hp to my Herdier on it's first attack, and then fucking 50hp with it's second attack (critical hit razor leaf) when it was the same attack as before, and it had just done 18hp. And honestly the min maxed stats on gen5 pokemon can get pretty fucking obnoxious, like leading with Servine into a darumaka, switching to audino, and a crit fire punch immediately takes 2/3 of Audino's HP, and Audino's return fell just short of one hitting the goddamn Darumaka. It's honestly a miracle (bad AI) that I haven't lost any more bros after Audino before the gal was a tru anchor for my team with it's bulk, and stab return that's hardly ever resisted this early on. Anyway, I saw the danger so I went back to castelia to grind Audinos because it's quite convenient to do so there, and trainer battles are a goddamn minezone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:28:23 No.53732143 Report

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>>53731611
you get up to four chances at an oddish on routes 24, 25, 5, and 6. the latter two you can go to after visiting bill, and beating misty is not a requirement. you're got decent odds

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:45:31 No.53732235 Report

Quoted By: >>53733755 >>53747770

>>53732129
Also idk if people think it's weird I don't name my mons but I never did as a kid and it's too weird for me to change something I've done for probably 2000+ hours.
>>53731611
Like the other guy said, Bellsprout/Oddish are going to be very helpful, and you can also get Butterfree and Beedrill to help out, as Starmie is psychic.
>>53731249
Based Jiggalug, god I love this tiny elephant. How come you've boxed so many guys?>>53731176
Machop and Insallah. Maybe try to cripple the purugly beforehand too, it'll probably be necessary.
>>53729962
Jubilee would've probably shit over Wake after taking out Gyarados too kek, easy win.
>>53729861
Nice! Platinum is also the game that made me definitively fall in love with Gallade, and it's funny because I recall using similar strats when playing vanilla, and at some point Gallade would be like 15 levels above the rest of my team purely due to League utility. Congrats!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:51:40 No.53732260 Report

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where do you EV train in Johto on a HG HC Nuzlocke?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 00:52:04 No.53732264 Report

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There was a guys posting every game he finished while Nuzlocking with an art of his trainer alongside his Pokémon, using the right metrics between trainer and Pokémon.

Is there a template for this?

I'm trying to find the original image but I simply can't

storyanon

storyanon Tue 02 May 2023 02:48:38 No.53732828 Report

Quoted By: >>53733755

>>53726533
>>53726561
>>53726580
super kino anon, congrats! Really cute seeing the Ceruledge and Hariyama together lol, glad they made it to the end. Hurrah for McGraw!

>>53729861
God damn, that's clutch. Congrats on the win!

>>53731249
Damn, this team is super interesting so far, especially for Johto. I like their personalities a lot, too. Hopefully the run treats you well!

storyanon

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storyanon Tue 02 May 2023 02:56:14 No.53732872 Report

Quoted By: >>53733197 >>53733755 >>53741834 >>53741846 >>53748452

>>53724108
>>53724122
The next gym went by so fast that Percival hardly remembered it. Even as Lake Acuity was blown to bits and he was called to action, his mind was far more focused on what was in front of him.

His team.

He kept losing mon after mon. He was training them well- what was going wrong? It didn't linger in his mind for too long, of course, but... once Lake Acuity was fully cleared of its wildlife and Percival was clear to continue his journey, he couldn't help but notice something.

When he'd fought Crasher Wake, he had a full team of six with him. Most of it was comprised of eager young mon ready to fight and willing to come along with him. He'd made sure to train them all diligently- his attentiveness had heightened to the point where he was now creating individualized routines for each member to maximize their effectiveness- and they responded well, with the regimented structure almost seeming to improve their cohesion.

By the time he had finished in Lake Acuity and set off to Celestic Town to investigate some old murals, he was left with only Covie and Moose from that team.
He'd even brought in two newcomers since then.
Only one of them had lived.

And almost all of these losses were from... trainers.
Random trainers, out in the wilderness, dead set on using fancy new foreign mon that had invaded the region. That they clearly didn't know how to train.

Percival couldn't help but look to his Crobat. Covie. His most consistent companion. She was so shaken now. He almost felt sorry for her. She didn't deserve all this death. Neither did he. As he stroked the shivering mon's wing to calm her, Percival found himself lost in thought.

Maybe Cyrus had a point. Maybe there really WAS something deeply wrong with this universe. A universe like this- where random events could cause total bloodbaths, complete chaos... for no reason?

His leader was absolutely right. Humanity needed a blank slate.

This... this state of affairs...

...it was unacceptable.

AKIN

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AKIN Tue 02 May 2023 04:15:58 No.53733197 Report

Quoted By: >>53733755 >>53738063 >>53742269 >>53747770

After some grinding, we're ready for Fantine. Supa Soaker led off and quickly dispatched the Drifblim; however, Aftermath took her too low for the rest of the fight. Luna came in and set up Light Screen in front on the Mismagius, and then it was the Jubilee show. I set her set up Toxic on the Mismagius and let her cook; no Toxic was necessary vs. the Gengar, a crit Fire Blast was enough to cook. Clearing up the new Surf side areas, and onto Canalave City.

>>53732872
Damn, those are tough losses. Keep the faith storyanon.
>>53731265
You've got Mankey for Mt. Moon and you can always get a Bellsprout for Misty, I think you'll be ok.
>>53731249
Based Venonat user, I'll be cheering for Shower Thot.
>>53731176
Try to lower the Purugly's Attack and just play around crit. Tank it with Turtwig and chip it down until you can switch in Machop safely, and then finish it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 06:56:39 No.53733633 Report

Quoted By:

Night bump.

Ronja

Ronja Tue 02 May 2023 07:37:56 No.53733755 Report

Quoted By: >>53738063 >>53742269

>>53732235
>How come you've boxed so many guys?
I always carry a full team, since I consider a party wipe a game over it'd be silly not to, I just don't like cluttering up the team in the image since the others are basically just death fodder anyway

>>53732828
>Damn, this team is super interesting so far, especially for Johto. I like their personalities a lot, too. Hopefully the run treats you well!
Thank you, yeah I'm really loving my little group already, and hopefully I'll be able to make a few more fun additions soon as well

>>53732872
Still hanging in there, I'm rooting for this run so hard

>>53733197
>Based Venonat user, I'll be cheering for Shower Thot.
I was honestly a little reluctant to make Shower Thot a permanent member of the team since Venomoth becomes so much more useful later, but the little guy has won me over, I hope I'll be able to carry him to the end He'll also allow me to do some sneaky stuff in the FRLG Safari Zone if I can manage to champ him

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 11:24:10 No.53734260 Report

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Is there a romhack that is similar to pokemon yellow but has updated GBA graphics? Feeling extra nostalgic and wanted to try a nuzlocke. Heard that yellow was always the hardest of the three.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 14:39:13 No.53734880 Report

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Midday bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 15:48:55 No.53735190 Report

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>>53730631
My bug contest catch was a weedle! I am so happy... except the damn thing is lvl 18. Guess I'll have to cross my fingers with the drowzee. On the upside, the weedle has more DEF IVs than the entirety of my current team combined so that's a thing.

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 17:38:58 No.53735717 Report

Quoted By: >>53740555 >>53741335 >>53741834 >>53741846

Whitney has been defeated.
Drowzee destroyed clefairy with taunt+disable, but went down unceremoniously against miltank. Got flinched and 2HKO'ed by miltank. If he had even a little shred of defense, it would have been a 3HKO and then he could have tried to miss a hypnosis.
Poliwag pulled through though, hit 2 consecutive hypnosis, managing to deal splendidly with the lum berry.
Which allowed skiploom to paralyze and flash 6 times, if only barely.
Next I had spearow growl against the miltank to reduce its attack, but after the 3rd growl he got crit through -6 accuracy and paralysis. Not gonna lie, little bit salty, because this spearow was neutral nature with 30+ atk IV.
Then it was a nerf wrecking dance between miltank and my two zubats until I managed to PP stall him for all his milk drinks and attracts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 20:49:54 No.53736530 Report

Quoted By: >>53736541

Bump before I go off to the wagie cage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 20:53:32 No.53736541 Report

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>>53736530
Good luck, may you have a good day at work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 21:46:02 No.53736818 Report

Quoted By: >>53738063

Question, what's the best randomizer to use for the 3DS titles? Thinking of doing a randomizer in Gen VII. Have one installed from years ago, but it only goes up to Gen V.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 23:03:59 No.53737227 Report

Quoted By: >>53740555 >>53741834 >>53741846

Misty down. I was really worried that Fuckwad's Squirtle would take out a couple team members before I could get a Bellsprout but HahaPingus pulled through with Stun Spore and a lucky confuse early on. Sleep Powder and a few Growths made Misty a non-issue. Still need to go see Bill and then level up my Sandshrew so she can cheese Surge for me. Since I'm using level caps I just save edited to get 999 rare candies I don't want to spend eternity grinding

storyanon

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storyanon Wed 03 May 2023 01:45:46 No.53738063 Report

Quoted By: >>53740555

>>53733197
>>53733755
I'm still hanging in there even if my entire team keeps bleeding out, thank you guys for the encouragement
as an aside, for AKIN: congrats on getting through Fantina! I know her, especially her Mismagius, is definitely a choke point so props to you for getting through it totally deathless too.

>>53736818
https://github.com/Ajarmar/universal-pokemon-randomizer-zx
this one does all the 3D games as far as I'm aware! Not sure about SwSh and especially not sure about SV, but it can do the 3DS games fine. It's got loads of extra options for every generation, too. It'll probably be my go-to from now on lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 05:51:53 No.53738990 Report

Quoted By: >>53739012

How is it my fire fighting pokemon does more damage with a 100 damage physical fire attack than with a 100 damage physical ground attack?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 05:59:54 No.53739012 Report

Quoted By: >>53739017

>>53738990
Because STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus) gives a 1.5x multiplier to moves of the same type as the Pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 06:01:18 No.53739017 Report

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>>53739012
Thanks

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 11:02:45 No.53739672 Report

Quoted By: >>53740868 >>53741335

>>53724184
I want to do a wedlocke but I also don't just want to have purely heterosexual pairings

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 12:58:12 No.53739908 Report

Quoted By: >>53740207

Probably unrelated to nuzlocke, but I'm trying to do random shuffle challenge for Emerald Rogue.
>pick a number between 0 to amount available to capture (e.g. if there are 4 mons, pick between 0 to 4, say 2)
>randomly release the mons (for example, 3rd and 5th in the lineup)
>finally, capture the mons (example, 2nd and 4th in the capture list)
Thoughts?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 14:45:18 No.53740207 Report

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>>53739908
>Emerald Rogue
wasn't it made by a sodomite?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 16:24:21 No.53740555 Report

Quoted By: >>53741335 >>53741834 >>53741846

After exploring the optional Surf areas and training up Do-Re-Mi, we move onto Canalave City. The Rival battle was expectedly easily this time, didn't make the mistake of not using Supa Soaker vs. the Monferno. As for the gym, tragedy strikes here. On the last gym trainer, the one with the Azurmarill, she got a defense drop Iron Tail on Jubilee on a switch in. I figure Blissey can stay in one more turn to set up Toxic. Crit. Instant death. Like that, one of our most dependable mons is gone. Rest in peace, my child. The rest of the gym, outside of a Bronzor crit bringing Supa Soaker a bit lower than I would like, was easy as expected.
Lliira, our reserve Chansey we caught in the wild before Jubilee hatched, will join the team so mechanically it's not that big a loss, but it hurts.

>>53738063
Thanks! Yeah, I got lucky on the Fire Blast crit on her Mismagius, but Blissey kind of hard counters her so I wasn't too worried in all honesty. Best of luck moving forward.
>>53737227
Congrats! I figured your team had the sauce to get through Mt. Moon because of that Mankey, the real worry was the rival, but it sounds like you clutched that out. The hard part of the Charmander run is mostly over now.
>>53735717
Impressive Whitney fight given how dogshit you team is against her. Two losses ain't all that bad.

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 17:34:52 No.53740868 Report

Quoted By: >>53741335 >>53741834 >>53741846 >>53746077

>>53729861
The HeartGold leg has begun. I randomized what my Pokewalker encounter would be and luckily I got Winner's Path. Anyways, Falkner was an easy sweep from Cheesecake.

>>53739672
An alternate idea for pairings I've seen is paring by natures. (One group of natures get paired with opposites of that gender, another with exclusively males/females, a smaller group getting paired with any)

Ronja

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Ronja Wed 03 May 2023 19:25:43 No.53741335 Report

Quoted By: >>53741834 >>53741846

Cutie squad rolling in
Decided to take some time to grind a little before Whitney because I was worried our team of babs wouldn't be quite up to taking on the bovine of nightmares, but we ended up pulling through quite cleanly in the end! Jiggalug took out her Clefairy without much issue, and then thanks to a combination of Sleep, Leech Seed and Confusion we managed to take her Miltank down as well!

>>53735717
Hell yeah, an impressive display!

>>53739672
It's 2023, go wild
Forreal tho, the important part of the wedlocke is the fact that two and two pokemon pairs are connected, the thing about them having to be opposite genders is basically just flavor

>>53740555
Aw man, rip Jubilee
Also shame Lliira didn't have Serene Grace either, Blissey being able to semi-reliably throw out burns is so powerful

>>53740868
Ooohh, I really like that idea of adding in an extra Pokewalker mon, adds some extra flavor to the beginning. Makes me miss my Action Replay that sadly bricked a few years ago, as it allowed me to get all the routes from the start which was a lot of fun

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 21:35:34 No.53741834 Report

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>May2
Streloks drains the Wail. Combusken comes in and I send in Yurik on a Flamecharge. another one leaves Yurik on 15hp, 25 after Oran berry which probably saved me since Flame Charge did exactly 15. I get lucky with rolls because after an exact 50% damage dealing Water Pulse, the 2nd Warter Pulse knocks it out. Garry walls Shroomish by dodging all stun spores.

But team Magma was up to no good! To prove his love for museums, Strelok used pursuit and followed them. Senka, drunk out of her mind, thought the entire team was with Strel and also followed, leaving the other members to face Wattson!

Unfortunately, by focusing my fears on May I forgot to turn off exp share, which resulted in Strelok, and worse, Senka being on-par level wise with Wattson. Which is above my level cap. So it was up to the b-eam [\spoiler]

Shit. Time to pray, eh?
I lead with Wolf and use Bite, but get T-waved. Quick Feet actually comes in handy and Wolf outspeeds and kills magneton. Voltorb is next and dies to 1 crit Bite! Magneton comes in, BUT HE FLINCHES TO BITE. I send in Aydar on a useless Supersonic (thanks soundproof), Magneton outspeeds but barely misses the kill on Aydar, who kills with Bulldoze. Luck is back on my side, lads!

>>53741335
>Wittling down the cow
Amazing play. I'm sad that your Aipom just died before becoming a champ. Any mons you're hoping for this run?
>>53740868
>Pokéwalker
I'm jealous! I have one but I dont know how to turn the fucker on.
>>53740555
Diverse team for a D/P run! Chansey/Bronzong combo seems a bit broken, though Blissey got fucked so it might be more fair than I thought.
>>53737227
Smooth sailing up ahead for you now at least! Love me some Stinke
>>53735717
Based WAGGER. What evo are you going for? Wrath or Toed?
>>53732872
Bro you have my eternal respect! Still going, even with the game raping you every turn, is admirable. You WILL defeat Cynthia! You will see the light!
>>53729861
Poetic that your knight survived. May he rest now

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 21:38:47 No.53741846 Report

Quoted By: >>53742090 >>53742269

>May2
Streloks drains the Wail. Combusken comes in and I send in Yurik on a Flamecharge. another one leaves Yurik on 15hp, 25 after Oran berry which probably saved me since Flame Charge did exactly 15. I get lucky with rolls because after an exact 50% damage dealing Water Pulse, the 2nd Warter Pulse knocks it out. Garry walls Shroomish by dodging all stun spores.

But team Magma was up to no good! To prove his love for museums, Strelok used pursuit and followed them. Senka, drunk out of her mind, thought the entire team was with Strel and also followed, leaving the other members to face Wattson!

Unfortunately, by focusing my fears on May I forgot to turn off exp share, which resulted in Strelok, and worse, Senka being on-par level wise with Wattson. Which is above my level cap. So it was up to the b-eam

Shit. Time to pray, eh?
I lead with Wolf and use Bite, but get T-waved. Quick Feet actually comes in handy and Wolf outspeeds and kills magneton. Voltorb is next and dies to 1 crit Bite! Magneton comes in, BUT HE FLINCHES TO BITE. I send in Aydar on a useless Supersonic (thanks soundproof), Magneton outspeeds but barely misses the kill on Aydar, who kills with Bulldoze. Luck is back on my side, lads!

>>53741335
>Wittling down the cow
Amazing play. I'm sad that your Aipom just died before becoming a champ. Any mons you're hoping for this run?
>>53740868
>Pokéwalker
I'm jealous! Kingdra before Clair should be a lifesaver.
>>53740555
Diverse team for a D/P run! Chansey/Bronzong combo seems a bit broken, though Blissey got fucked so it might be more fair than I thought.
>>53737227
Smooth sailing up ahead for you now at least! Love me some Stinke
>>53735717
Based WAGGER. What evo are you going for? Wrath or Toed?
>>53732872
Bro you have my eternal respect! Still going, even with the game raping you every turn, is admirable. You WILL defeat Cynthia! You will see the light!
>>53729861
Poetic that your knight survived. May he rest now

Ronja

Ronja Wed 03 May 2023 22:36:03 No.53742090 Report

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>>53741846
Ooohh, not often you get to see Quick Feet come in clutch, nice going Wolf!

>Any mons you're hoping for this run?
Honestly I'm really hoping to champ my Phanpy, Skiploom, Venonat and Exeggcute so that I can do some fun stuff in XD and FRLG (specifically the Poke Spots and Safari Zone), this being the last game I can champ these ones before that Well, I do have a second chance for Jumpluff in Colosseum, but I have other plans there
My Cleffa is going to act as boltbeamer via the elemental punches, so the only thing I really need is a Water mon, and I thought it'd be due time to bust out the Kingdra for this run; getting the guaranteed Horsea in Whirl Island (thanks to dupes clause) and staying there to Thief wild Horsea until I get a Dragon Scale (I love getting items from wild Pokemon, as my Lucky Egg quest from last thread should attest to)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:38:33 No.53742101 Report

Quoted By: >>53742115 >>53742178 >>53742222

is there a general consensus on how the safari zone is handed, hoenn or otherwise?
>first pokemon to appear, take it or leave it and start praying it doesn't flee
>first pokemon you can successfully catch
>catch as much as you can in one run, cherrypick one that you caught, release the rest

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:41:35 No.53742115 Report

Quoted By: >>53742120

>>53742101
I tend to do first encounter per area and “if it flees, no more encounters”
just feels right to me
Dunno how others handle it lol- I know some people do one per the entire zone, but if I did that I’d lose my mind with indecisiveness. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ll never understand people who decide to only allow themselves a single run through… but as many catches as they can get

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:42:44 No.53742120 Report

Quoted By: >>53742144

>>53742115
>per area
this is a thing? i thought people counted the entire safari zone as one area

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:47:20 No.53742144 Report

Quoted By: >>53742169

>>53742120
anon...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:53:09 No.53742169 Report

Quoted By: >>53742184

>>53742144
my apologies for being a brainlet, but i've never had a run last long enough for these safari zone questions to matter

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:57:21 No.53742178 Report

Quoted By: >>53742202 >>53742222

>>53742101
I generally do one encounter for the safari zone, but that encounter is the one I catch, not the one I first see. I have to throw pokeballs at every non-dupe encounter, so no picking and choosing, and whatever I end up catching first ends up being the "encounter"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 22:58:32 No.53742184 Report

Quoted By: >>53742202

>>53742169
ah, that's fair

sorry for you man
hopefully your next runs treat you better

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 23:03:03 No.53742202 Report

Quoted By:

>>53742184
the run's going fine more than fine [the flamethrower gyarados ruby run from last week], i'm just doing the safari zone before I tackle winona and didn't know how to handle it
>>53742178
this seems more than fair considering there's that omnipresent 15% 'fuck you' chance of a pokemon just running away turn 1 if it isn't caught unlike every other area of the game. i'll probably use this

Ronja

Ronja Wed 03 May 2023 23:08:35 No.53742222 Report

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>>53742101
Pretty much the same as >>53742178 but I do one per area, I like having options and I don't really feel having a few extra mons significantly changes the difficulty at all, so I'd rather go with the option that's more fun for me

storyanon

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storyanon Wed 03 May 2023 23:18:35 No.53742269 Report

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I have like 3 total types in my entire box and have like 10 encounters left for the entire game
I'm not certain I'm even going to make it to the League with a full team by this point
But I am going to press on
For my awesome fucking bat
That refuses to die

>>53741846
>>53733197
>>53733755
thank you anons, and may your runs go much much better

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 02:09:11 No.53742962 Report

Quoted By: >>53742970 >>53753200 >>53753210

winona wound up being piss easy, but that's only because of the prepwork i did
>scared of altaria's earthquake if I put ice beam on tentacruel
>no other water types i could really justify spending the TM on
>except one
>milotic
>spend next three days fishing the route when I get spare time
>finally find one, it has a quiet nature, fuckyea
>female too, so it completes the yin/yang theming with gyarados
>between the magneton from new mauville, my new milotic, and good ol' gyarados to pivot safely from the earthquakes winona stood absolutely no chance
figured that since i autistically spent so much time grinding coins for flamethrower for gyarados earlier i might as well go whole hog and autistically fish two thirds of route 119 abusing dupe clause looking for feebas, and it paid off in spades. 9001% worth it.
oh and that absol should make a good insurance policy against tate and liza if gyara/milo can't surf the space rocks to death. despite its reputation as a nuzlocke killer i'm looking forward to that battle

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Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 02:10:13 No.53742970 Report

Quoted By: >>53753200 >>53753210

>>53742962
>forgot pic
apparently i also caught the big dumb on route 119 as well

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 02:11:07 No.53742972 Report

Quoted By:

>>53720159
test

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 06:33:58 No.53743916 Report

Quoted By:

Bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 11:37:27 No.53744664 Report

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bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 13:56:30 No.53745183 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 16:57:49 No.53746048 Report

Quoted By: >>53746131 >>53746215 >>53746831 >>53746840 >>53765803

Dead nuzlocke hours
Here's a discussion topic
Are you the kind of person who properly releases your dead party members, or are you the kind of person who puts them in a "death box" and just don't use them again?
I am personally the latter because I am way too sentimental to release them.

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Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 17:05:12 No.53746077 Report

Quoted By: >>53753200 >>53753210 >>53757264

>>53740868
The wedlocke is still going strong.

>Proton
Stroganoff OHKOed Zubat with Ember and 2HKOed Koffing

>Bugsy
2HKOed Scyther with Rock Throw and Ember spammed his cocoons

>Silver 2
Cornbread took out Gasty with Bite and Zubat with Hyper Fang. Mochi OHKOed Quilava with Muddy Water.

>Whitney
Ambrosia set up a reflect and 2 Swords Dances as Clefairy mimicked the Reflect, used it and got me to half health with a metronomed Lava Plume, but Ambrosia OHKOed with a Razor Leaf crit. Miltank attracted and Ambrosia was infatuated for a turn, but a Overgrow boosted Razor Leaf was enough to put down the cow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 17:14:55 No.53746131 Report

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>>53746048
The latter. I've 'properly' released the dead once and i regret it.

storyanon

storyanon Thu 04 May 2023 17:28:03 No.53746215 Report

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>>53746048
I used to properly release them, but as time has gone on I've used a death box instead since it helps me keep a tally of my losses and lets me look back on the specifics of every member i've lost. Helps me a lot if I want to accentuate a specific aspect of a member for storytelling before their death but can't remember everything about them or I just want to kick myself for losing them a little harder lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 19:11:20 No.53746831 Report

Quoted By: >>53746892

>>53746048
permabox since you can never fill every space and holding yourself accountable to the rules of a nuzlocke is a good exercise in self-control

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 19:13:10 No.53746840 Report

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>>53746048
Gen 1 and 2 properly release because navigating multiple boxes is annoying. Gen 3+ I use a death box.

storyanon

storyanon Thu 04 May 2023 19:22:13 No.53746892 Report

Quoted By: >>53746920

>>53746831
>since you can never fill every space
this is untrue and I have proven it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 19:25:12 No.53746920 Report

Quoted By: >>53747032 >>53765803

>>53746892
howso? what games have enough legal encounters to fill every space in every box?

Ronja

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Ronja Thu 04 May 2023 19:41:49 No.53747031 Report

Quoted By: >>53747074 >>53747936 >>53753200 >>53753210 >>53757298

Morty defeated, but not quite in the way I had expected. I figured Shower Thot would be my best bet against the gym since he's neutral to Ghost and has Confusion for super effective damage, so I let him run through the gym. Initial observation tells me that he's strong enough to oneshot Gastly with Confusion, but only just barely strong enough to twoshot Haunter, meaning that Gengar is probably at best a threeshot. Shower Thot is thankfully quite speedy, so he's able to outspeed both Gastly and Haunter, meaning the only big worry I have is the Gengar, so I figure I might have to do the usual carousel of switcharoos against Morty's Gengar.

>Send out Shower Thot, Morty sends out Gastly
>Shower Thot outspeeds and oneshots with Confusion
>Morty sends out Haunter
>Confusion does about 70% HP, Haunter uses Night Shade which does a decent chunk
>Next turn KO, Morty sends out Gengar
>Figure the best thing to do is use Stun Spore since I likely won't be staying in with Shower Thot for long
>Gengar uses Mean Look turn one
>thepanicsetsin.gif
>Shower Thot thankfully lands Stun Spore, but that is still at least three turns where if the Gengar lands Hypnosis I'm basically fucked
>Shower Thot uses Confusion, 40% HP of damage done, Gengar is fully paralyzed
>heavybreathing.gif
>Shower Thot uses Confusion, Gengar only has 20% HP left and...is fully paralyzed a second turn in a row
>Finish off Gengar, as well as the next Haunter who wastes a turn on Spite

Shower Thot you fuzzy bastard I will never underestimate you again

storyanon

storyanon Thu 04 May 2023 19:41:51 No.53747032 Report

Quoted By: >>53747050 >>53747074

>>53746920
I mean, going by how I count encounters, any game with a safari zone already fills up a row
then there's usually at least one route per gym + the league (meaning 9 minimum), this is without counting encounters you might get in cities via game corners or gifts or eggs, and the fact that one route per gym/league is already a gross underestimation

My average nuzlocke from gens 1-4 at least usually gets me a box to a box and a half's worth, and my current Platinum Nuzlocke has already given me 46 (before Snowpoint City, and this is without counting the Lake and the route before it), which is a box and a half
dunno as much about the later games

storyanon

storyanon Thu 04 May 2023 19:45:12 No.53747050 Report

Quoted By: >>53747074

>>53747032
oh yeah I also forgot that's discounting multiple cities (including Hearthome since the Porygon gift there ended up being eliminated due to dupes clause), at least three routes (two encounters were accidentally killed, one roared), and any complications that could come about from other people counting encounters differently

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storyanon Thu 04 May 2023 19:50:10 No.53747074 Report

Quoted By:

>>53747032
>>53747050
ignore this i'm retarded
I thought you meant it's impossible to fill up the DEATH box, exclusively, and that Nuzlockes left you with less than a box's worth of Pokémon to work with
I don't think it's possible to fill up every single space in every single box
maybe in like SwSh or SV where the open portions let you go hog wild, but that highly HIGHLY depends on how you count encounters and I don't think there's a single outright legal way of doing this without the expansion pass anyways

>>53747031
congrats!! Shower Thot finally coming through is quite satisfying to read

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Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 22:02:41 No.53747770 Report

Quoted By: >>53747936

>>53731198
>>53732235
>>53733197

Good & Bad News.

Lost my Bibarel to a Bide Pachirisu whilst grinding. I forgot it learnt bide and it died.

My plan was to have Bibarel either get a lucky rollout streak or use Rock Smash to lower Puruglys defence.

New strategy was Zubat VS Zubat and before I switched to Machop I used Supersonic and it hit. Whilst purugly was still confused I used focus energy then karate chop for an instant crit win.

It's a shame about Bibarel but my team of four seems fine. Hoping to catch a good mon on Route 205 before the forest. Hoping to get to Eterna City in one piece.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 22:10:33 No.53747798 Report

Quoted By: >>53747936

Cyrus wiped me out in the distorsion world. Gyarados outsped the one counter I had against honchcrow. Fuck.

Starting over. Again. Eight attempt, here we go...

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Anonymous Thu 04 May 2023 22:42:53 No.53747936 Report

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Fireflight is dead. One shot by fucking Hawlucha and Rock Tomb in Reflection Cave. Why is this single stretch of route more dangerous than both gym leaders so far? Even before you get on the route you're ambished by Korrina, then you've got a psychic with Sigilyph, the double battle with Mr. Mime and Machoke, and a sky battle that leads with an Emolga that has Acrobatics seven levels early for some reason, and this bullshit with Throh and luchabird. The worse part is i'm pretty sure i could have avoided it entirely, but here we are. I'm not making any more progress today, i need to look at the routes and figure out who i can catch.
I'm so sick of losing my birds to bullshit.
>>53747031
Good looking Venonat, good looking team.
>>53747770
Bide is the killer you don't expect. I usually just run instead of risking it, hence why i have so few deaths (that and i look everything up).
>>53747798
You'll get it eventually, i believe in you.

storyanon

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storyanon Fri 05 May 2023 00:54:53 No.53748452 Report

Quoted By: >>53753200 >>53753210 >>53758008

>>53732872
Lake Valor was next.

Percival trekked on. Fight after fight, mon after mon. With everyone he'd lose, he'd gain another. Sometimes even two more. But he could hardly allow some of his catches onto his team. The way their typings and abilities clashed would put what little remained of his old friends in even greater jeopardy than they already were. And there was no way the grunt could risk that. No way, no how, not now.

These losses weighed heavily on him. As he saw his Mamoswine lose his bravado. And he saw his Crobat continue to change before his eyes once more.
It almost felt wrong not to intervene.
And Percival knew his feelings really didn't matter in a mission like this.

But they mattered to his team, did they not? And to himself, even as a grunt.

Such thoughts plagued Percy's mind as he began attempting to soothe his two most stalwart companions, Moose and Covie.
He'd gone through the trouble of learning their names- of what they like, of who on the team they liked best- to maximize efficiency earlier, but only now did those names begin to have meaning to him.
To apply to his tools in any regard beyond simple identification.

Covie and Moose... these were monikers worn by experienced battlers. Mon he'd gone through things with. Mon whose attitudes changed, whose experiences made them grow. Means to an end before all else, maybe, but what beyond that?

Companions. Friends.
The closest things to human contact that he had outside of bloody trainer battles on this brutal journey.

...

...he continued onward. To Snowpoint.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 03:28:06 No.53748982 Report

Quoted By:

pre-sleep bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 06:54:53 No.53749457 Report

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Night bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 14:22:20 No.53750519 Report

Quoted By:

bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 16:27:54 No.53751071 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 17:16:03 No.53751329 Report

Quoted By: >>53751425 >>53755548

We know Cynthia gets shitstomped by Gyarados, but what'd be the protocol in case you lost Gyarados?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 17:32:35 No.53751425 Report

Quoted By:

>>53751329
thoughts and prayers

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Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 19:02:43 No.53751855 Report

Quoted By: >>53751886 >>53753501 >>53756004 >>53757298

For those who are doing or have finished an autismlocke, do you count LGPE and Legends as part of the challenge?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 19:09:23 No.53751886 Report

Quoted By:

>>53751855
LGPE yes, Legends no. I plan to end mine with BDSP. I don't think Legends would be fun to Nuzlocke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 21:43:33 No.53752649 Report

Quoted By:

Quick bump.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 22:13:17 No.53752809 Report

Quoted By: >>53753200 >>53753210

I gambled for Honedge on route 6, i lost. Meet Salvador.
>Evident to all around him he was gifted with power from a young age, Salvador learned all he could from his family before being sent out into the world to learn and grow. He's now found himself in the middle of a team in mourning and on the receiving end of Shelly's rage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 22:37:41 No.53752940 Report

Quoted By: >>53752950

>ruby progress update
so tate and liza were piss easy, and even at level 35 , 7 levels below their space rocks, gyarados and milotic cleaned house after two surfs each. being able to use both water dragons for this fight was certainly novel and i fucking love how thematic the idea of their sun/moon pokemon battling gyarados and milotic is
just a few encounters left, but i have to admit the upcoming groudon fight scares me because i *really* don't want to lose either water dragon to a poorly timed crit coming off of it's base 150 attack

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Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 22:38:44 No.53752950 Report

Quoted By: >>53753210

>>53752940
>forgot pic
>again
i need to do these on the weekend when i'm not so braindead after wageslaving

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 23:16:47 No.53753200 Report

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A lot of running around. I didnt even know that Mightyena gets Crunch early with an Heart Scale this gen, so it's a nice bonus. Skarm is the only route 113 I can catch so it having Careful as its nature is just icing on the cake

Maxie1
Senka completely dismantles Mightyena even with an attack drop. Golbat comes out and Petruha tries her best against it, but can't come out on top. Wolf comes in and Crunches it to death. Camerupt starts with Earth Power, but Yurik dabs on it. A single Water Pulse drown the camel.

>Flannery
For the first time in years, Flannery went without a hitch. Metronome Water Pulse did 90% on Torkoal after only killing Slugma. Even after it set up Sunny day, it did 50% on the 2nd time so with another 20% increase it didn't stand a chance.

My dad is next, I purposely didn't train Awl to the cap so I can still fight the gym trainers.
>>53752809
I lost my Fire bird to the same fucking Hawlucha. It's ridiculous that the toughest fights in Kalos are random trainers. Good luck against Korrina!
>>53748452
Covie is the real MVP. That Crobat is so fucking based even GOD can't kill her. Cory should do good too, with his nature and all.
>>53747031
It's always a blast seeing a shoulder-mon suddenly sprout into a sweeping machine. I think your team this run is cute in general. TACFKADDB is a Hitmonchan born as a Cleffa, huh?
>>53746077
Clean fights my man! Props for making it that far with the defensive horror known as Stroganoff.
>>53742970
>>53742962
Always nice seeing time that people spend being rewarded. Getting Ice Beam before Winona is the only reason she isn't as much of a Locke killer as she definitely can be

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 23:19:38 No.53753210 Report

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A lot of running around. I didnt even know that Mightyena gets Crunch early with an Heart Scale this gen, so it's a nice bonus. Skarm is the only route 113 I can catch so it having Careful as its nature is just icing on the cake. I briefly debated letting Garry the Dustox stay on the team, but he's falling off

Maxie1
Senka completely dismantles Mightyena even with an attack drop. Golbat comes out and Petruha tries her best against it, but can't come out on top. Wolf comes in and Crunches it to death. Camerupt starts with Earth Power, but Yurik dabs on it. A single Water Pulse drown the camel.

>Flannery
For the first time in years, Flannery went without a hitch. Metronome Water Pulse did 90% on Torkoal after only killing Slugma. Even after it set up Sunny day, it did 50% on the 2nd time so with another 20% increase it didn't stand a chance.

My dad is next, I purposely didn't train Awl to the cap so I can still fight the gym trainers.
>>53752809
I lost my Fire bird to the same fucking Hawlucha. It's ridiculous that the toughest fights in Kalos are random trainers. Good luck against Korrina!
>>53748452
Covie is the real MVP. That Crobat is so fucking based even GOD can't kill her. Cory should do good too, with his nature and all.
>>53747031
It's always a blast seeing a shoulder-mon suddenly sprout into a sweeping machine. I think your team this run is cute in general. TACFKADDB is a Hitmonchan born as a Cleffa, huh?
>>53746077
Clean fights my man! Props for making it that far with the defensive horror known as Stroganoff.
>>53742970
>>53742962
Always nice seeing time that people spend being rewarded. Getting Ice Beam before Winona is the only reason she isn't as much of a Locke killer as she definitely can be

>>53752950
I had the day off and still forgot my image. Let alone the gazillion spelling mistakes I made in my last image :P Also Surf only hitting opponents in gen 3 is so fucking great. Really wish they brought it back in ORAS to make it easier for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 00:23:07 No.53753501 Report

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>>53751855
Its about as far as you're willing to go desu. The challenge is all up to you so whatever games you want to play are part of the challenge and whatever games you don't, aren't.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 02:07:00 No.53753934 Report

Quoted By: >>53757250

Back at it again, realizing I should’ve been posting as I played, you guys would’ve seen the previous art for Yamcha and Tien, but oh well.
Moving onto gym three!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 05:25:35 No.53754727 Report

Quoted By: >>53754908 >>53755469

Bump.
What is the best Gen 3 Pokemon for a Nuzlocke?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 06:40:24 No.53754908 Report

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>>53754727
Guts Facade Swellow maybe?

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 09:19:36 No.53755384 Report

Quoted By: >>53756629

Beat Skuntank in Galactic HQ easily and was quite proud.

Lost two core team members due to critical hits on the Cycling Road.

I'll try my luck another time.

Platinum is pretty tough.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 10:01:08 No.53755469 Report

Quoted By: >>53755974

>Dad
Senka Fakes Out Slak1ng and then uses Force Palm, but it isn't enough for the kill. Senka takes a retaliate and then kills it. Vigoroth retaliates, but it doesn't hurt Awl. Awl uses Sky Drop when Vigo throws with encore. Then I throw by going for Swords Dance allowing Vigoroth to keep setting encore up again after it ends. Senka comes in and Fake Out + Force Palm kills. Slak2ng comes in and I send in Awl on a Chip Away. I switch into Yurik on the truant and then use the lame-o protect cheese to win. Sorry not sorry.

Up next;
A route where I can't catch anything due to champ clause
Invisible Kekkers
And a Gym i'm not prepared for Might Shedinja cheese on Altaria
>>53754727
Skarmory, Swampert and Sharpedo are pretty broken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 10:02:23 No.53755474 Report

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Camper Jeff just outside of Vermillion City goes hard. His Raticate nearly put my Mankey in the ground. Luckily NootNoot is now a Weepinbell and could tank a hit to finish it off. Really feeling the lack of something tanky in this team. Need a rock type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 10:54:05 No.53755548 Report

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>>53751329
I feel like you are almost guaranteed to have a Bibarel in the box. Assuming it has Simple, it can sweep Cynthia's team without problems in DPPt and with a bit more thought it can mostly do so in BDSP.
In DPPt, Staraptor basically neuters Garchomp just by entering battle, but if you also have Intimidate Luxray, you can just swap between them and turn Chomp into a complete joke. Doesn't work in BDSP cause Chomp has Swords Dance now.

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 13:46:35 No.53755928 Report

Quoted By: >>53756160 >>53757298

so i made the mistake of taking on groudon before any pokemon was even level 40, and i almost paid dearly for it
>try to toxic it with milotic to put it on the clock, but it misses and eats a fireblast which even resisted does a good chunk
>scared of earthquake and the run she ice beams and does more but is critically injured by a slash
>swap to gyarados, the bulk ups begin
>gyarados puts up more of a fight and puts groudon into the mid-yellow but eventually is forced to switch as well into my secret weapon
>a lvl 26 duskull
>eats slashes for breakfast and ignores earthquakes
>risk one of the last two fire blasts to get off a confuse ray, fourth bulk-up
>mfw
>try to disable, groudon hits itself
>predict fire blast succesfully, swap into a sharpedo I picked up on route 122
>sun-boosted fire blast almost kills it anyway
>decide to sac sharpedo, but groudon hits itself once again, letting sharpedo's crunch finally bring the behemoth down
i am a fucking idiot who only got a deathless groudon from sheer dumb luck. i have no idea why it never clicked earthquake. lesson learned; there's no fucking way i'm risking anything against wallace's horn drill seaking, so there's a lot of grinding to 43 in my future

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 14:01:45 No.53755974 Report

Quoted By: >>53756160

>>53755469
Skarmory is gen 2.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 14:14:16 No.53756004 Report

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>>53751855
If I were to count them, then where would I end on including side games? Colosseum and XD? MD? Conquest?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 14:58:43 No.53756160 Report

Quoted By: >>53757250 >>53757298

Wont even mention May 3 because lol. Had an attempt at a guaranteed Feebas because of repel spam, but SOMEBODY KILLED IT IN ONE HITS WITH FAKE OUT SENKA. anyway....

>Winona
Swellow and Awl start off with DD and SD spam. After getting to +6, Awl proceeds to rape Winona's entire team with Aerial Aces. Swellow goes down to one, as does Pelipper, Skarmory takes two Steel Wings and Altaria also perishes. Really glad I went back to Mauville for Aerial Ace.
>>53755928
Good luck grinding, Anon!
>>53755974
I thought you meant Hoenn.

storyanon

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storyanon Sat 06 May 2023 16:14:39 No.53756568 Report

Quoted By: >>53757298

the curse strikes again

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 16:24:55 No.53756629 Report

Quoted By: >>53757298 >>53757896

>>53755384

So I restarted and I've such a more consistent and clean run. I've got a more balanced team and now I'm back in Eterna Forest.

It's before that Double Abra Battle. What Hidden Power do they have again?

storyanon

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storyanon Sat 06 May 2023 17:26:30 No.53756940 Report

Quoted By: >>53757298

holy shit
this story is about to get 100x more JRPGy

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 18:33:24 No.53757250 Report

Quoted By: >>53759018

Time to finish Gen 4. What started as a simple Gym challenge has escalated into a conflict between the International Police and Team Galactic as Lucas and Barry have been recruited by Looker to be his deputy agents. Taking the names Diamond and Pearl, the two rivals set out from Jubilife City to thwart the evil space weebs' schemes. Diamond has just liberated the Valley Windworks after an encounter with Commanders Mars and Charon, now on his way to Eterna City to investigate the building owned by Galactic.

>>53753934
Never thought I'd see this game on here lol. Definitely an odd team of almost all jobbers from the series.
>>53756160
Love to see Skarmory kicking ass and I like the team dynamics. Hoping I get to use Skarm in ORAS but I'd probably get fucked over by Spinda.

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 18:35:57 No.53757264 Report

Quoted By: >>53759018

>>53746077
Had my first few deaths of the run, the first being during a grinding session.

>Silver 3
Cornbread bites Gastly, Mochi KOs Quilava and Zubat, Cornbread finished Magnemite with Rock Smash

>Morty
Cornbread just used Crunch on everything lol.

>Eusine
This one was a tad rough. Cornbread OHKOed Drowzee, and Electrode screeched as did a good amount with Hyper Fang. But then, Electrode used Thunder, did over half, and paralyzed Cornbread. Healing wouldn't do enough so Cornbread and Mochi died. Daikon was able to beat both Electrode and Haunter with Brick Break and Aerial Ace.

>Chuck
Cheesecake 2HKOed both Primeape and Poliwrath.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 18:43:08 No.53757298 Report

Quoted By: >>53757958 >>53759018 >>53761430

Made our way through the icy wastes of the north on our way to Snowpoint City, and there we fought Candice. Lliira bounced her Snover pretty easily, and Luna managed to whittle down the Medicham enough for Hippolyta to finish it off. However, the Medicham managed to paralyzed Hippolyta so she couldn't deal with the Sneasel, so Do-Re-Mi took care of it instead with a Gyro Ball. The Abomasnow was nearly a big problem, but Luna got the Toxic off and from there it was just a pivot-fest until it died. It was kind of close though, one more turn and I actually would've been in trouble. Up next, the two updates of the Galactic Climax. (Lewd.)

>>53756940
>>53756568
Looking forward (read: terrified) to read this next update.
>>53756629
Now that's a Sinnoh team alright. All the staples are present and accounted for. If memory serves, they're HP grass; I seem to recall my Onix in a run getting jobbed by them.
>>53756160
>Linoone, Mightyena, and Pelipper on a team with Skarmory.
Holy based.
>>53755928
We take the good luck where we can get it, Anon. Just don't waste it. Happy grinding!
>>53751855
I'm probably not gonna play LGPE because I don't really enjoy that game. Legends maybe because I do enjoy that game, but it seems challenging to Nuzlocke.
>>53747031
Shower Thot delivering like I hoped they would. Curious why you're not using Zubat or Slowpoke here, seems like they'd be really helpful for you team. Saving them for future games?

storyanon

storyanon Sat 06 May 2023 19:32:52 No.53757564 Report

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God forgive me for what i'm about to do

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 20:46:32 No.53757896 Report

Quoted By: >>53761430 >>53762825

>>53756629
In that battle right now, they both have Fighting since they both went for Chansey super effective damage

Ronja

Ronja Sat 06 May 2023 21:00:30 No.53757958 Report

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>>53757298
>Curious why you're not using Zubat or Slowpoke here, seems like they'd be really helpful for you team. Saving them for future games?
I'm saving Zubat for Ruby/Sapphire since Crobat doesn't get Sludge Bomb in Gen 2 and I'm not really hurting for it right now
Slowbro I'm also saving for later since I wanted a Water type that isn't weak to Dark, specifically because of Karen's Houndoom

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storyanon Sat 06 May 2023 21:15:23 No.53758008 Report

Quoted By: >>53758013 >>53758595 >>53759018 >>53759347

>>53748452
https://rentry.org/percivalindistortion

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storyanon Sat 06 May 2023 21:17:43 No.53758013 Report

Quoted By: >>53758595 >>53759347

>>53758008
I wish I was joking
but this is seriously what replaced Giratina
and I had to write around it
I hope this isn't too cringeworthy to read lol
had to work with what I could

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 06 May 2023 23:24:56 No.53758595 Report

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>>53758013
>>53758008
continue

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 01:07:02 No.53759018 Report

Quoted By: >>53759163 >>53768772

>>53757250
Arriving in Eterna City, Diamond meets up with Pearl again and encounters the mysterious Cyrus for the second time. Looker shows up after and instructs Diamond to recruit Gardenia for their investigation of the Galactic building. After Halley mowed down her team, Gardenia ran ahead in shame and disappeared into the futuristic office. Diamond and Pearl run into a disguised Looker, then battle their way to the top floor, where they witness Commander Jupiter's Skuntank knocking out Gardenia and her Roserade. Also noticing Rad Rickshaw and several Pokemon held hostage, Pearl jumps into battle to protect Gardenia, but it quickly defeated. Diamond readies himself for battle as Looker pulls Pearl and Gardenia to safety.

>Jupiter
Nova OHKOs Zubat with Spark, then switches out for Asteroid as Skuntank arrives. Both sides Screech at the other until Asteroid slings parts of his body at the skunk, as it jumps through each hit and slashes Asteroid's head. The dark energy disrupts Asteroid's mental connection with the Onix multiversal hive mind, and the rock snek dies. Nova is called upon again to finish the job, but is immediately cut down with a single Night Slash. With limited options to tank Skuntank's hits, Diamond sends out Ursa, who shirks off a slash and Headbutts the evil skunk into submission.

Not surprised that I lost some mons to Skuntank, though they weren't huge losses since I wasn't planning to use Steelix or a Rivalry Luxray. Up next are Rotom and guaranteed Gligar & Gible, so I'm excited to use those.

>>53757264
Love the Dream World artwork, sad that Mochi died since Kingdra would've been fun to eventually use.
>>53757298
Props for bringing a Dustox this far. Couldn't Bronzong just solo Abomasnow?
>>53758008
RIP Covie, she survived through so much bloodshed. She will be welcomed in the afterlife by all her fallen friends. The Dark God will avenge her.

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Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 01:43:41 No.53759163 Report

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>>53759018
>Burned Reflection Cave Wobbuffet almost killed Firestar with Destiny Bond
The only reason everyone survived is because it didn't use Mirror Coat while Ember chipped it down and i had a Dusk Ball ready. I'm really starting to hate this cave.

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storyanon Sun 07 May 2023 02:42:56 No.53759347 Report

Quoted By: >>53759359 >>53761218

>>53758008
>>53758013
After the ordeal at Mount Coronet, Percival took an entire week off.

How could he not? So much had changed in such a short time span. It was impossible to continue onward without some kind of rest.

And so, he just... relaxed. Hung out on the beach. Got to know his new teammates.
It was a refreshing change of pace, and greatly helped the grunt grapple with... everything.

His next course of action, however, was quite swift: he wasted no time in flying to Veilstone HQ and calling a Galactic meeting.
"Team Galactic is no more!" he cried. "Your leader is gone, and your plan has failed!"

Percival was lucky- he'd managed to gather the entirety of the organization at Veilstone.
Having a fragment of God itself tended to make doing that easier, but I digress.
He spent his time wisely, explaining exactly what Cyrus was trying to achieve and how he was well and truly gone, before ending with a definitive statement.

"Stop all this. Return to your families. This organization is in the past, now, and I will handle the rest once I claim the champion's throne."

It was a laughable statement, to some. To others, it was deadly serious.
Most low-level grunts obeyed. After all, why wouldn't they? This man was backed by an otherworldly being they'd never seen, and most had only joined to get some decent pay anyway. If the rich guy backing this entire operation was gone, there was no point in staying.

Percival's fellow admins, on the other hand, were less receptive to the idea.
He soon faced blowback from Saturn especially, who was furious and demanded that he succeed Cyrus and continue the team's plans to wipe the world of all emotion. It took a lengthy battle and plenty of convincing to put him down... but Percival managed it, eventually.
And once Saturn was defeated, the other two admins soon saw reason.

storyanon

storyanon Sun 07 May 2023 02:46:38 No.53759359 Report

Quoted By: >>53761218

>>53759347
From there, things went rather smoothly.
Percival only lost a few more members on the way to the League building- mostly due to reckless trainers, once again. He'd asked for Alpha to somehow prevent those losses- or even bring back Covie- but it refused, starting that was in Dialga and Palkia's hands and not its.

A similar answer was given once Percival mentioned the invasion of nonnative Pokémon to the region.

Alpha, however, did agree to one condition: if Percival could claim the championship, and do so without killing his entire team in the process, Alpha would reward him by summoning Dialga and Palkia for him and making them do as he asked.

Alpha knew that Percival's wants were mostly for the good of the region, after all, save for the revival of his former teammates. It was more than willing to aid in something like that, and the return of lost life to help heal a broken man's heart was simply bonus incentive to the fragment.

Percival agreed to the bet without hesitation.

And so, as he stepped into the Pokémon League building, the grunt had only one thing on his mind.

Total victory.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 03:15:25 No.53759459 Report

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Picked up a Magikarp in Vemilion with the old rod because I didn't have a water type yet, and a Diglett in Diglett's cave so I didn't have to use the Dig TM in case I want it for someone else later. Really needed a counter for fire, and Sandshrew doesn't learn a damaging ground type move within my current level cap. Kind of feel like I'm spending more time than I should be on fighting trainers, though, since I'm just using candies to avoid grinding

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storyanon Sun 07 May 2023 03:38:55 No.53759550 Report

Quoted By: >>53759620

quick storyless interlude to brag about the fact that I finally got through an important stretch of the game without even a single cheap death >:)
things are finally looking up just as the game is fucking over lmaooo

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storyanon Sun 07 May 2023 03:57:21 No.53759620 Report

Quoted By: >>53761218 >>53763688

>>53759550
we did it bros.
story coming tomorrow, it's midnight here and I need to rest

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Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 06:10:14 No.53759945 Report

Quoted By: >>53760959

Very nearly lost my Diglett and Weepinbell to Lt. Surge's Raichu. Got some lucky paralysis procs to come out with 3 whole HP left. I'm sure I'll eat these words before long but I'm starting to wonder if I need stricter rules, I haven't lost anyone yet because I play lame with status effects and not taking risks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 11:48:11 No.53760714 Report

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Bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 13:31:23 No.53760959 Report

Quoted By:

>>53759945
that's why i always put a cheri berry on important pokemon in fights like that, because it might make all the difference
erika is in the same boat, but it's more random considering she's got all three effect powders on her team

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storyanon Sun 07 May 2023 14:45:55 No.53761218 Report

Quoted By: >>53761654 >>53763688 >>53764784 >>53767082 >>53768772

>>53759347
>>53759359
>>53759620
https://rentry.org/percivalmajorbattles
(not in-character, but describes each major battle that happened, as it happened. Meta.)
-
Percival slotted his team members' pokeballs into the League's healer.

He took only a cursory glance at the former champion's expression.
Irritation...
One look at his outfit gave Percival the answer as to why that was. But he still hadn't expected such a reception.

And yet, the champion's own reaction to his victory didn't matter.

Because he'd won.

He and his Pokémon had won.

His newfound friends, whom he'd gone through so much. His close and important allies, without whom he'd never have gotten here.

Their names would echo in the halls of history for all eternity.

Felix, Cory, Vanya...
Alpha would have joined them, too, had its ball been properly configured for the League's machines. Alas, the technology was too new for Alpha to be properly enshrined. (However, Alpha itself didn't seem to mind.)

...

Percival couldn't help but feel slightly grim.
There were so many other mon of his that deserved a spot here.

The Galactic grunt turned back to his Arceus.
He spoke only a few words, with nothing but a soft smile accompanying them.
"...I've won the bet."

-

And so, once the formalities were well and truly done, Percival was met with the sight of Dialga and Palkia. The pair of legendary beasts, one more summoned atop Mount Coronet, quickly got to work once Alpha commanded them to.

It took very little time at all for them to do their work...

...and once it was complete, Percival was unable to hold back his emotions for much longer. He began to tear up, just a little.

"...welcome home, friends."

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Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 15:41:31 No.53761430 Report

Quoted By: >>53764784

>>53757298
>>53757896

Thanks for the info. It's HP Fighting.

Anyways I got to Eterna in which I challenged Gardenia with Staravia and Monferno at Level 20. Roserade didn't go down to easily but we won. I did this so I could train up at the Haunted House.

Got my team all to Level 23 and felt so good using Dragon Rage on Skunktank. I'll be heading down the cycling road soon.

>Monferno
>Staravia
>Luxio
>Roselia
>Geodude
>Gyrados

Honestly my team feels pretty solid. I need some better moves on most the team though for coverage options.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 16:45:14 No.53761654 Report

Quoted By:

>>53761218
>inb4 the final final boss is another arceus
>Omega

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 18:50:16 No.53762148 Report

Quoted By:

Bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 21:18:41 No.53762825 Report

Quoted By: >>53764096

>>53757896
Kinda surprising this doesn't seem to be well documented. You would think Bulbapedia would have a note on it.

storyanon

storyanon Sun 07 May 2023 23:33:32 No.53763585 Report

Quoted By: >>53763688 >>53764784 >>53768772

I'm so tempted to start White right now but I'm not sure i'd have the energy for a story even though I have a decent concept lol
Maybe I'll wait
Probably a good idea to, especially considering my schedule and the work week starting tomorrow

Ronja

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Ronja Sun 07 May 2023 23:50:41 No.53763688 Report

Quoted By: >>53764784 >>53767460

That's all of Johto taken care of! Not really a whole lot to say about the fights, considering that the last three were completely demolished by The Artist Currently Formerly Known As Dupree DuBois, utilizing a combination of her three elemental punches (as well as a newly acquired Return for Clair's Kingdra) to assure victory, only needing help with Chuck, who was safely taken out by Breadquanda and Gertrude instead. Now to make our way to the league and grind up a little before getting past one of the last big hurdles of Gen 2!

>>53759620
>>53761218
Fuck yeah, you did it! Despite all those setbacks you managed to pull through, and even getting blessed by the game at the end with an Arceus! Major congrats!

>>53763585
...but yeah, maybe it would be good to start White with some clarity of mind, but then again if your heart is telling you to start it then you should absolutely follow I'd say

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 00:52:11 No.53764006 Report

Quoted By: >>53764096 >>53764784 >>53765738

What's the consensus on legendaries around here? Normally I just kill the fuckers since I never liked using them, not even as a wee lad. Recently though I've thought about adding a new small layer of difficulty to my runs by forcing myself to capture at least the box legend without the master ball. What do y'all do?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 00:58:34 No.53764050 Report

Quoted By: >>53764096 >>53764784

Also, any good nuzlocke let's plays by people who don't constantly scream for their 10 year old audience? I've watch one by ProJared and it was entertaining. I'm just looking for stuff to have on the background mostly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 01:12:58 No.53764096 Report

Quoted By: >>53764880

>>53762825
Honestly it's surprising Bulbapedia doesn't have full details of all NPC teams. Serebii does but still doesn't list specifically which HP type on a mon. TIL those Abra have Energy Ball in BDSP since I think HP was removed from the TM pool, so only Unown has it.
>>53764006
I just avoid legends but if I'm forced into battle with one for the plot, I just lob the Master Ball and box it immediately since it's usually a new location. I used the beasts in Colosseum though since there aren't a ton of viable mons and they all still died by the end lol
>>53764050
It's hard to find one without an annoying quirk to them. I watch a lot of FlygonHG but it can be painful hearing him intentionally mispronounce names.

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Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 04:34:11 No.53764784 Report

Quoted By: >>53765738 >>53767082 >>53767460 >>53768772

Shalour City down! I actually employed a bit of strategy against Korrina, not that it mattered.
>Lead with Shelly against Meinfoo, tank the Fake Out and kill with Fairy Wind
>Lucky Chant and Wish on Machoke, switch into Salvador to outspeed and one shot with Psybeam as Wish heals all his damage
>Outspeed and one shot Hawlucha the same way
Not as bad as i thought, though i was fearful of that Flying Press and didn't think Shelly could take a hit. I should also mention that everyone is fully super trained, which is how Salvador outsped. I felt kinda bad about it right up to Fireflight's death, so screw it.
>>53761218
>>53763585
You did it, despite all the bullshit! Big GG!
Yes, take a break. I've suffered Nuzlocke burnout before, took me a while to get back in the saddle.
>>53761430
Very nice team, Roserade was actually one of the champions of my original Nuzlocke.
>>53763688
You're almost there!
>>53764006
I personally allow them if they abide by the spirit of the Nuzlocke, not that i've ever gotten the chance to.
>>53764050
You're probably gonna have to dig through the Youtube archives for that. Most creators today have to do that to get the algorithm to favor them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 05:05:41 No.53764880 Report

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>>53764096
Oh God I began listening to FlygonHG's Blaze Black nuzlocke and the way he's saying Snivy is triggering the fuck out of me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 06:52:38 No.53765202 Report

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Night bump.

Ronja

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Ronja Mon 08 May 2023 11:11:16 No.53765738 Report

Quoted By: >>53767082

...and the league is down! As with my other Gen 2 runs, it was mostly a hard carry by our elemental punch user, The Artist Currently Known As Dupree Dubois soloing Will and Lance, but having to outsource some help from Din Zhao to take down Koga's Crobat. Bruno was a cooperative takedown between Shower Thot, Gertrude and Jiggalug, switching to whoever took the least damage from the current mon out, Jiggalug in particular coming in clutch by getting a crit Earthquake on Bruno's Machamp. Karen was another collaborative effort, Gertrude actually managing to solo her Umbreon without even taking damage, baiting out her Houndoom which was then swiftly dealt with by Din Zhao, who also took out her Vileplume and crippled her Gengar, allowing Shower Thot to finish the battle easily.

I went in a little underleveled compared to how I usually do it, which is partially because of cockiness, but also due to impatience to test out something that I found out yesterday, which I'm excited if it'll work...

Either way, we're off to Kanto!

>>53764006
Personally I don't mind using them as long as they're only good and not broken. Legendaries like most of the trios (birds, dogs, golems, lake spirits) are basically on par with the best regular mons like Alakazam and Gengar, so if you can manage catch them, why not right
I'm not a big fan of the real overpowered legends tho, like all the box legendaries, they can get fainted (or captured in a Master Ball if I'm feeling lazy)

>>53764784
Continuing to be a real big fan of this team, II hope they continue to do well going forward!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 11:43:21 No.53765803 Report

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>>53746920
You only get like 8 boxes in gen 5.
>>53746048
Death box for me, it feels too bad to release the guys, and it's usually never their fault.

Ronja

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Ronja Mon 08 May 2023 13:02:23 No.53766018 Report

Quoted By: >>53766153

So, it turns out that in Crystal's postgame, you get access to a trainer with a lvl 41 Chansey that you can easily rebattle every 2-3 minutes. Pokemaniac Brent on Route 43 switches up his team for every rematch, going from a Lickitung to a Kangaskhan to a Porygon and ending up with the aforementioned Chansey. You can easily make him call you for a rematch by switching Daylight Saving Time on and off with your mom with him as your only phone contact, and a lvl 41 trainer-owned Chansey is probably the best exp in the game outside of maybe some of the gym leaders. I'm probably not the first to figure this out, but I haven't seen anyone else talk about this, and this is probably the best postgame grinding method out there (but sadly only available, as mentioned, in the postgame, specifically after delivering the Machine Part)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 13:11:26 No.53766036 Report

Quoted By: >>53766171

So I'm going up against Fantina and I'm aware that her ace Mismagius can be tough to beat.

I've got an Eevee which I thought I could use as an Umbreon but it doesn't get a dark move til it's in the thirties.

I've got Gyrados with Bite + Dread Plate, not to mention Dragon Rage.

Nothing else on my team is specially bulky bar Roselia but he has nothing to hit Mismagius with.

Wish my luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 13:50:35 No.53766153 Report

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>>53766018
It's not post-game if it's before Red. But you're right, I don't think anyone has really brought this up as an option.
That said, one thing someone could do, though it would require a lot of prep on an alternate game is setting up the Trainer House with 6 Chansey/Blissey at level 100. (Well, even 50 would be better than the alternative)
You could then Mystery Gift with the game to get all that sweet EXP. It's once per day, but I think you can just reset the game clock for it.
I'm sure on emulator or something setting this up would be easy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 13:57:39 No.53766171 Report

Quoted By: >>53766463

>>53766036
Well that went smoother than I thought.

Used Charge with Luxio when Duskull was out and had a Rawst Berry for the eventual Will o Wisp. Took it down however Haunter got me low once it too went down.

Switched in Staravia to Pluck Mismagius however confusion got me badly. Got the pluck at the very end.

Swapped into Gyrados who took it out with bite. I think now there is a Rival fight before I leave Hearthome?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 15:35:44 No.53766463 Report

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>>53766171
There is a rival battle on the next route (209).

AKIN

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AKIN Mon 08 May 2023 18:00:39 No.53767082 Report

Quoted By: >>53767460 >>53768161 >>53768772

Spear Pillar ended up being brutal. I didn't overlevel for the Mars & Jupiter fight, because I thought we'd have a brief moment to reset before the Cyrus fight. I completely forgot that we just jumped right into it, so I was seriously underleveled for the Cyrus fight. The fight got off to a horrible start, because his Honchkrow managed to OHKO Supa Soaker from a Drill Peck crit. A Dark Pulse crit from that same Honchkrow killed Do-Re-Mi from about half-health. I was really worried that I would get swept here, but Hippolyta finished off the Honchkrow and then OHKO'd the Weavile. Cyrus' Crobat was a big problem for me, but the combined efforts of Luna and Lliira managed to bring it down. His last Pokemon was Gyarados, and all I really had to deal with it was Atlas. I don't know why he didn't Ice Fang, because I'm pretty sure he could've cooked me with that move. Regardless, he Giga Impacted instead, letting me set up the Curses, and finished the fight. Oh yeah, I guess we caught a legendary Pokémon, so that's cool I guess.
Two big losses on the team as a result of this battle, and I'm not just talking emotionally. Supa Soaker and Do-Re-Mi were kind of my lynchpins for the Cynthia Garchomp Battle Plan, so I'm not really sure what the backup for that is. Anyways, the new recruits are Eno the Finneon and Mesmer the Mr. Mime. After some grinding, it'll be onto Sunyshore City and Volkner.

>>53765738
Damn, you moved quick! Congrats on the league and making it through Crystal deathless. Seeing those Pokémon you've had the whole run is heartwarming.
>>53764784
Somehow this is both a generic and really unique team for Kalos. Best of luck for the rest of the game!
>>53761218
Holy shit the mother of all asspulls lmao. But hey, can't say you didn't deserve it for all the bullshit you've endured this run. Congrats on a successful run and thanks for making it entertaining!

storyanon

storyanon Mon 08 May 2023 19:12:54 No.53767460 Report

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>>53763688
>>53764784
>>53767082
thanks! I can't believe I made it, honestly, I thought i'd choke like a gym or two before the champ
And yeah, I think I'll take a little break
I held off yesterday, at least; will probably start maybe tomorrow or the day after. I'm still unsure if I'll go past Kalos, so I'm in a bit of a marathon mindset where I'm just gonna do one game after another and go for as long as I think would fit me best.

I am also very glad to hear that the story entertained you guys :D
I actually had a lot of fun writing it, despite the somewhat dire tone, and I'm looking forward to continuing to write these narratives as I go on

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 20:18:40 No.53767774 Report

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God what the fuck is Bouffalant?? Cunt gets sap sipper, stab whatever that horn attack is called, megahorn, revenge, hits like a truck. Fuck off stupid toro.

Ronja

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Ronja Mon 08 May 2023 21:45:22 No.53768142 Report

Quoted By: >>53768161 >>53768772 >>53774505

All of Kanto has been bent to our will, but it was by the skin of our teeth. The first seven fights were, as usual, a cakewalk, most of them soloed by a single mon, but Blue was a whole other story. I went into his fight quite underleveled, because it's the second to last fight and I'm itching to move on to Gen 3, but it almost cost me dearly. The Artist Currently Formerly Known As Dupree DuBois does most of the heavy lifting as she's been doing most of this run, taking out Blue's Pidgeot, Alakazam, Rhydon and Gyarados, but by the time Exeggutor comes out she's only hanging on by a thread, thanks in large part to Rhydon going for Sandstorm which drains 1/8 HP this gen. I know that Blue's Exeggutor can only directly damage with Egg Bomb and Solarbeam, and since I'm way out of range for an Egg Bomb KO, I decided to chance a Fire Punch to weaken the coconut man, thinking that Gertrude can eat a Solarbeam ezpz, kill Exeggutor, bait a Flamethrower from his Arcanine that Din Zhao can eat and then hopefully KO the Arcanine tout suite.

Ronja

Ronja Mon 08 May 2023 21:49:55 No.53768161 Report

Quoted By: >>53774505

>>53768142
The plan seems to work until Gertrude comes out, wherein Blue fully heals Exeggutor which is a bit of a problem. I decide to go for Sleep Powder so I can perhaps just send out Din Zhao directly, but after Gertrude misses THREE TIMES IN A ROW she's too weak to take another Egg Bomb, so it's up to Breadquanda to sleep her fellow tree. I send in Din Zhao, get off one Icy Wind, but then Exeggutor wakes up and uses Sunny Day. This is quite bad seeing as not only can it fire off Solarbeams willy nilly, that is also gonna be big trouble when Arcanine comes out. I switch into Shower Thot who eats a turn 1 Solarbeam and thankfully lands Sleep Powder right away (In retrospect I'm quite thankful I had three mons with Sleep Powder, it felt like overkill, but BOY did I need it). I use Sludge Bomb, hoping it does a fair amount of damage without killing Exeggutor so that Sunny Day can run out, but of course I crit and kill immediately. Arcanine comes out, I have to swap to Din Zhao, he eats the sun-boosted Flamethrower like an absolute champ, sun is out, Extremespeed doesn't do nearly enough to even 3KO, Din Zhao's Surf twoshotting the fiery dog and netting us the less than clean but still deathless victory.

Now all there is left is Red, which should hopefully be a clean sweep by Jiggalug after a short grinding session.

>>53767082
Aw man, shame to see Supa Soaker and Do-Re-Mi downed like that, but yeah that Cyrus fight is mad scary, even in DP
I don't know if you're gonna put Eno on the team permanently, but personally I really hope so, Finneon and Lumineon are some of my favorites and it'd be amazing to see one carried to the end, especially with a Dustox already on the team
Either way I'm rooting for you!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 May 2023 23:44:50 No.53768647 Report

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is there any way to make the team images bigger on the Blank theme? I like almost everything about it save for that. The images are unreasonably tiny.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 00:08:42 No.53768772 Report

Quoted By: >>53770358 >>53774505

>>53759018
Short update since the battles in Eterna. Hubble and Shaula have joined the team, and Moon is growing through switch training with a Soothe Bell. Aquarius evolved and swept Fantina with Crunch, now Diamond can count on her to aid against Team Galactic. Next is the Barry/Pearl fight upon leaving Hearthome, though I also need to grab Eevee and might head underground for a fossil.

>>53761218
>>53763585
Congrats on pulling through after 32 deaths, that was a hell of a ride. Looking forward to what you cook up with White.
>>53764784
Interesting you have the rule that only 6 mons can be caught at a time, that must add some extra challenge with having to keep a Panpour for so long.
>>53767082
RIP Supa Soaker and Do-Re-Mi, maybe your Sneasel could be a good counter for Garchomp, and definitely Lucian.
>>53768142
Haven't mentioned this yet but I love the idea of Elemental Punches Clefable, never seen that before and it's absolutely genius. The punches were so good in Gen 2.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 03:26:14 No.53769660 Report

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Bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 07:10:31 No.53770358 Report

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>>53768772
>Interesting you have the rule that only 6 mons can be caught at a time, that must add some extra challenge with having to keep a Panpour for so long.
Yeah, it's different to not have anything to fall back on in case of severe type disadvantage. Evolving Poseiden won't be an issue, i have two or three water stones, it's keeping him alive for Crunch that'll be the challenge. He's more a special attacker than physical, but i hate the idea of losing out on a move permanently, hence why i carried a Growlithe around in Black 2 until it learned Outrage.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 10:43:21 No.53770985 Report

Quoted By: >>53771466 >>53771500 >>53772184 >>53772642

Have you ever though about breeding in nuzlockes? (Excluding Egglockes and the like)
I sure didn't, but I've been playing Emerald Cross (QoL hack) in Nuzlocke mode and the game woudn't let me hatch the Wynaut egg unless I was in a new area, which made me think on how breeding could be implemented in a kind of balanced way in a run:

>Can only breed with whatever you caught (no cheating by catching extra Pokémon)
>Dead Pokémon cannot breed
>Each set of parents can only breed one egg, once you get the egg neither of the parents or their offspring can breed again.
>The egg must hatch in an area where you can catch Pokémon but haven't found your encounter yet, and it counts as your encounter (For example, you can't hatch it in Lavender as there are no possible encounters, but you can in Vermillion)

This way it's not like you're abusing the system to get infinite Pokémon or you are guaranteed to be able to breed the Pokémon you want as you also need to get lucky with your encounters and their egg groups and genders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 14:15:56 No.53771466 Report

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>>53770985
I have, yeah, but I’ve mostly discarded it since I play with Dupes clause 90% of the time and breeding would just land me with the same damn team if I used it enough… which is exactly the opposite of the Nuzlocke challenge’s point

I just ban it as a result. I don’t really state as much in my rules (because nobody considers breeding when doing these), but it’s an unspoken rule I live by.
The one time I did use it ended up destroying the impact of my starter dying, so I’m not keen on giving it a second chance either lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 14:26:58 No.53771500 Report

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>>53770985
i've always played with the rule that you get one (1) egg from the daycare in a playthrough, which counts as a daycare encounter no matter where the egg actually hatches
it can matter when you either have a valuable egg move for a specific line, want to spread out one of the finite TMs, or just have a ridiculously good (but rare) pokemon that you're happy to have two of
the fact that it's one of the few ways you can cherrypick exactly want you want for an encounter makes the choice you make for breeding all the more meaningful

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 16:56:22 No.53772184 Report

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>>53770985
No, but i did toy with trading Pokémon to another game where they come in late (e.g: Houndour from Platinum to HeartGold).

AKIN

AKIN Tue 09 May 2023 18:25:02 No.53772642 Report

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>>53770985
Never flirted with the idea, but if you wanna use your encounter on the route/town that has a breeder on it, I think that's fine.

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Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 19:14:19 No.53772942 Report

Quoted By: >>53772976 >>53777818

>get to Sky pillar
>encounter there is a Claydol
>"nice, I was missing a decent psychic type, and it has high defe-"
>it selfdestructs

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 19:19:44 No.53772976 Report

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>>53772942
baltoy and claydol are fucking terrifying. they are the sole reason golduck isn't the worst water type in hoenn after luvdisc

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 May 2023 22:56:16 No.53774269 Report

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emergency bump

Ronja

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Ronja Tue 09 May 2023 23:16:50 No.53774371 Report

Quoted By: >>53774505

First gym of our Gen 3 adventure down! Already piling up the 'goons, which suits me just fine seeing as the early routes, especially in Ruby/Sapphire, are quite barren otherwise. Roxanne was easily taken down by Pop Off Sis, had to evolve him to stand a chance since our encounter in the forest was a 5% Taillow instead of a 15% Shroomish, but oh well, the badge is ours

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AKIN Tue 09 May 2023 23:48:44 No.53774505 Report

Quoted By: >>53780578 >>53780606

Beat Volkner. Not much to say, Earthquake go brrr. The grinding was honestly harder than the gym.
Onto the Elite Four I guess?

>>53774371
>>53768161
>>53768142
Nice to see the new run and congrats on finishing Kanto! Fellow Dustox gang member, love to see it. Dustox has really grown on me this run, I only kept it so long because I didn't have a better choice, and now I'm keeping it because it actually knows Toxic. I'm gonna keep Eno on the team, I want a special attacker with Swift Swim.
>>53768772
Great looking team so far! I guess Weavile could work, but I already have so many physical attackers; probably better to diversify and save Weavile for future runs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 00:24:47 No.53774675 Report

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Bros I got the giant chasm Metagross ;_; (dupes claused out the audino) this is NOT OVER

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storyanon Wed 10 May 2023 01:25:12 No.53774908 Report

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Around the same time as the start of Percival's journey, a girl named Winnie was sent off to Unova.

She was on a mission. A mission her great uncle had given her.

Unnatural populations of Pokémon had begun springing up everywhere, and Winnie's uncle wanted to know: which region had the most valuable Pokémon in it? Which had the rarest, most profitable byproducts? How could he take advantage of this situation?

Seeing as Winnie was a wealthy teenager with nothing better to do than spend her life being a spoiled brat obsessed with buying new clothes, he saw it fit to send her off on his little errand. She was to scout out Unova for rare mon and send them back to him. As reward, she could keep whichever ones she liked best.

But, her uncle continued, she could only have one mon per area. He didn't want her taking too big a slice of his pie, after all, so she would have to choose wisely.
And if she ever found herself in a situation where it was too dangerous to continue, she was to return to her home region immediately.

With those basic rules set in place, Winnie and her three-lady-band set off to Unova in hopes of... well... Winnie didn't know for sure.
She didn't really care about this whole thing. But she'd heard great things about Unova's luxury fashion brands!

Maybe if she got some time away from this dumb mission, she'd be able to buy herself a fancy new coat or something...

-

Got a bit of time in today so I decided to get the grinding for Striaton over with asap. I would've gone further with this, but if I have to spend another five hours giving Thyme two more levels I'm going to throw this brick at someone. Everyone but Thyme has an Oran berry for the fight, btw.

Starter choices were Pidgey, Lillipup, Aron. I was very tempted to pick Lillipup... but then I remembered that I actually want this run to survive lol.

storyanon

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storyanon Wed 10 May 2023 03:47:50 No.53775548 Report

Quoted By: >>53775707 >>53776585

fun fact
apparently gen 5 randomizers randomize abilities completely

I never want to fight a Carvanha with Speed Boost ever again

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 04:20:02 No.53775707 Report

Quoted By: >>53775777

>>53775548
three words:
>wonder guard sableye

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 04:27:56 No.53775735 Report

Quoted By: >>53776147 >>53776583 >>53781082

>been nuzlocking for probably around a decade
>start a new emerald nuzlocke
>get poochyena as my petalburg woods encounter
>always hated mightyena and have a strong early set up (mudkip, wingull, zigzagoon, dustox, lotad, and later got an abra above rustboro)
>box it
>every time something dies i give myself a reason to not use poochyena
>wingull and dustox both die before norman, leaving me withoout protect cheese
>kadabra dies to a baltoy self-destruct while grinding and i finally give poochyena a chance
>all-star of the gym because of intimidate cycling and rock smash
>finish with no losses
>all-star of winona because of intimidate cycling and roar on altaria
>finish with no losses
i'm sorry i always doubted you, friend.

storyanon

storyanon Wed 10 May 2023 04:36:44 No.53775777 Report

Quoted By: >>53777266

>>53775707
thanks for the flashbacks fuck you
I’m realizing now that I phrased the initial post terribly; I meant to say that it randomizes every ability a Pokémon can have without taking into account accessibility, meaning that a bunch of randoms have their Hidden Abilities for some reason. I specifically set the randomizer not to randomize abilities completely, so I’m never going to find a Wonder Guard Sableye or anything like that.
Thank god.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 07:00:52 No.53776147 Report

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>>53775735
That right there is the point of it all, new appreciation for Pokemon you haven't used before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 10:19:04 No.53776583 Report

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>>53775735
Kino.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 10:20:30 No.53776585 Report

Quoted By: >>53777266

>>53775548
Isn't that just Carvanha's hidden ability?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 14:07:18 No.53777266 Report

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>>53776585
>>53775777

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Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 14:36:00 No.53777367 Report

Quoted By: >>53781590

continuing my rubylocke, wallace is ded
>grind up gyarados, milotic, minun, and an oddish i picked up on 123 to bellossom to wallace's cap of 43 to avoid horn drill hax
>lead minun to delet the luvdisc and bait in the whiscash
>pivot to gyarados to dodge the earthquake
>swap to bellossom, amnesia
>set up sunny day, 2nd amnesia
>nervoussweating.gif
>i shouldn't have worried, bellossom instantly crits the stupid fish with a solarbeam, deleting it like luvdisc was
>sealeo comes out, outsped and killed
>his milotic comes out, expected it to be last but whatever it's an extra turn of sunny day on it
>solarbeam does over half, but his milotic ice beams in retaliation
>it does ~33%. shit's fine. bellossom's a tanky girl and had an aspear berry in case of freeze hax
>last turn of sunny day puts one last solarbeam into the milotic to put wallaces inferior water dragon down
>seaking gets cleaned up with two giga drains
and that's the 8th gym badge! i love how the worst early game i've ever had that wasn't dead on arrival has turned into my most successful run ever. just have some unfinished business before taking on victory road and the league
>raise wailmer to 40 to unleash the titans and kill them
>head to meteor falls to try for a bagon
wish me luck, anons

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 16:06:57 No.53777818 Report

Quoted By: >>53809075

>>53772942
Okay, Juan is beaten, but sadly, Raditz the Bellossom did not make it (alongside a sacrificial Zubat). He swept most of his team except for Kingdra and Crawdaunt, but died to a crit Ice Beam from Kingdra. I probably wouldn't have made it had I not gotten super lucky, because despite a non-100 accuracy AND his Kingdra having maxed evasion from Double Team, Gastro managed to Toxic it.
On the good news, I got a Relicanth (named Pleigodon, if that's how you spell it) on route 126 underwater and a Sableye (named Carat) in the Cave of Origin! Now begins the long grind until Level 50.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 19:11:26 No.53778773 Report

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>lose magneton because i forgot the lantern had earthquake
emerald is so fucking hard man

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Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 21:14:32 No.53779552 Report

Quoted By: >>53779600 >>53779604

My Lv.29 Luxio died in Veilstone Gym to a Submission Machoke.

Luxio was responsible for so many clutch wins. RIP Luxio.

Who should I pick from my box to replace then with?

The rest of the team is:

Montero
Staravia
Rosella
Graveller
Gyrados

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 21:20:49 No.53779600 Report

Quoted By: >>53779651

>>53779552
It's pretty fun using Duskull/Dusclops in Sinnoh

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 21:21:12 No.53779604 Report

Quoted By: >>53779651

>>53779552
How viable is togekiss in a platinum nuzlocke?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 21:30:55 No.53779651 Report

Quoted By: >>53779660 >>53779670

>>53779600
>>53779604

I'll pick Duskull. Togekiss would give me another ice and elec weakness.

Duskull should be great for the Fighting Gym as it'll be immune to a lot of moves.

I'll spend time training him up. When can he turn into Dusknoir? Reaper Cloth is needed IRC.

Luxio was good but kinda frail as it didn't have Intimidate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 21:33:55 No.53779660 Report

Quoted By: >>53785309

>>53779651
I usually use the intimidation wheel for my runs. Staraptor, gyarados, luxray, and switch them over and over to nullify whatever physical threat I cannot oneshot. It usually works well, but I've wiped to too many critical hits to be foolproof.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 21:35:45 No.53779670 Report

Quoted By: >>53785309

>>53779651
>I'll spend time training him up. When can he turn into Dusknoir? Reaper Cloth is needed IRC.
You playing plat? After Candice. D/P is post-game

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 May 2023 22:14:31 No.53779836 Report

Quoted By: >>53780309 >>53780578 >>53781590

Do y'all play on emulators or on console? I couldn't fathom nuzlocking these games on console and being unable to evolve trade evos. Thank god for the randomizer app allowing you to make them evolve through leveling.

storyanon

storyanon Wed 10 May 2023 23:43:58 No.53780309 Report

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>>53779836
I used to play on console whenever I could, but after the issue of trade evolutions got really annoying (and I stopped having cartridges for the first two generations) I just went to emulator.

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Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 00:00:38 No.53780417 Report

Quoted By: >>53780515 >>53781590

I'm scared why does everyone's Pokémon but mine have their hidden abilities
What did I do for this

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 00:21:03 No.53780515 Report

Quoted By: >>53780606 >>53781590

>>53780417
okay so I wiped to a trainer's Ferroseed because I didn't have any fire types and my only special attacker was weak to it

attempt number 2 time I guess

Ronja

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Ronja Thu 11 May 2023 00:32:48 No.53780578 Report

Quoted By: >>53780606 >>53782906

That's Brawly and Wattson taken care of! Brawly is mostly dealt with by Frolica Fields (only having to switch out briefly to shake off a Leer) and Wattson being absolutely grilled by Pop Off Sis. The team is strengthened by the addition of Love Shack the Golbat, personally I'd love to keep him as a Golbat since it's one of my favorite mons, but without the Eviolite being present (let alone moves like Roost) that's not exactly a viable option unfortunately.

>>53774505
Hell yeah, hope the E4 prep is going well!

>>53779836
Console all the way, I couldn't imagine not being able to transfer everyone up to Bank/Home, and I lose interest in a run really fast if I don't play on an actual system and especially if I have access to speedup (and I'm not strong enough not to use it if it's there). The trade evo problem is not an issue for me thankfully since I'm enough of an autist to have multiple consoles and games. This does mean that my autismlockes inevitably take forever tho, but I don't mind a long adventure

storyanon

storyanon Thu 11 May 2023 00:41:07 No.53780606 Report

Quoted By: >>53780943 >>53782906

>>53780515
I just realized I forgot my name

anyways my starter choices were Pidove, Lotad, and DEINO
so guess what I chose lol
anyways, story soon

>>53774505
Lumineon on a team? Never thought i'd see the day. I hope he sweeps Cynthia

>>53780578
Your nicknames scare me, but your playthroughs intrigue me
it is also very impressive that you somehow managed to find a shiny that wasn't the Gyarados for every single playthrough of Johto you've done so far (and champed them all too)
please continue

storyanon

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storyanon Thu 11 May 2023 01:42:23 No.53780901 Report

Quoted By: >>53780943 >>53781590 >>53782906 >>53791450

At approximately the same time as the calamity in Sinnoh, a young boy ran away from home.

Finally having turned 16 years old and of legal age to do a proper Gym challenge, Winston has set out on his own journey against the wishes of his parents. He had no Pokémon to his name, but the day after he ran away, that changed... very quickly.

Winston was soon awoken by a scruffy Deino who'd noticed him on the side of the road and slept next to him to keep herself warm. Now that day had come and both of them were exposed to the elements, the Deino prompted a revelation in the boy: Winston could hear her speak.
He was too startled to reply properly after hearing her first words.

She... wanted to get stronger? And he was her key to doing just that. How-

-it didn't matter. By the time Winston got to grips with the situation, he was already being prompted towards Striaton City.
At least she was being kinda helpful...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 01:42:30 No.53780902 Report

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>using nuzlocke generator
>when I try to download the image it spins the wheel forever and doesn't download
is there info I have to put in for it to download? does it not work on firefox? or certain extensions?

Ronja

Ronja Thu 11 May 2023 01:49:15 No.53780943 Report

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>>53780901
>>53780606
Deino is such a rare mon to see used, hope she manages to stick around, love the little muppet dragon

>Your nicknames scare me, but your playthroughs intrigue me
it is also very impressive that you somehow managed to find a shiny that wasn't the Gyarados for every single playthrough of Johto you've done so far (and champed them all too)
please continue
haha, hopefully my nicknames aren't too frightening, I'm just really tickled by weird and out there names, although Love Shack is a rare example of just a straight up song reference which I rarely do

and yeah it's kinda crazy how it worked out with the shines, although to be fair they don't tell the entire story, Noctowl I practically shinyhunted for as a side-effect of looking for the Lucky Egg and Clefable coming from the Odd Egg. Fearow was an honest to god random shiny however, but by that point I had racked up a lot of random encounters

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 02:24:46 No.53781082 Report

Quoted By: >>53781590 >>53782906

Finished Emerald. Only included notable boxed mons. Honorable mentions:
>Fiona the Sharpedo: MVP Tate & Liza, Juan, Phoebe, Drake - until she got outsped by Salamence. Damn quiet nature.
>Godrick the Marshtomp: MVP Roxanne, Wattson, Flannery. Died in the battle he would've evolved in because of my misplay (attack redirected after killing all of wobb's partners. should've doubled on wobb to start).
>Alan Eyes the Magneton got me through a lot of the late game, especially Winona. Fuck Lantern.
>Kevin the Mightyena (as referenced in >>53775735) was fantastic. I had to bring in Gyarados for the E4, but wouldn't have gotten here without him. I'm glad he got to live.
>Big Tony the Linoone is my favorite early rodent for a reason - so many random items and strong STAB early. Swapped him out after Norman when Mightyena took over his spot.
I forgot to use my 6 rare candies that I saved all game before Wallace which probably would've made it less of a headache. Tentacruel toxic/rest stalled milotic but it was still doing like 20-25% with surf. I also had like 5 toxic misses though.

Lessons Learned:
>double up on wobbufett first
>don't sleep on mightyena, cradily, or tentacruel
>roar is a great safety net

onward to White 1!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 03:27:05 No.53781334 Report

Quoted By: >>53781590

>looking up Finneon art
>need it for an image
>glance at first row
>pic rel appears

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 03:52:40 No.53781430 Report

Quoted By: >>53781590

>forgot timburr gets rock throw at lv. 16
sorry pidove :(

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 04:50:41 No.53781590 Report

Quoted By: >>53782906

So i went into the Coumarine Gym expecting a tough time since Gogoat seemed to have a counter for my whole team. I gave far too much credit.
>Lead with Amadeus, tanking an Acrobatics and killing Jumpluff with two Flame Charges
>Gogoat pops out, switch to Loretta to tank Bulldoze, then to Salvador expecting a Grass Knot
>"Gogoat used Take Down!"
>Dafuck.png
>Dalvador two shots with Psyshock, tanking a Bulldoze and one shots Weepingbell
The Dugtrio on route 13 were more deadly, granted because they outsped at least up to Loretta and scored a crit Magnitude 8 on Poseiden, but still, we're four for four on non threatening gym leaders. Maybe Clemont will break the streak. I will admit despite going in slightly underleveled, Amadeus and Shelly both passed the level cap right before Ramos. The plan was to reach the cap through the gym trainers, but they gave more EXP than i thought. It was only a single level though, and my own personal interpretation of the rule means i can go over the cap by one as long as i enter the gym beforehand. Any higher than that and i'd have to ban them from the battle.
>>53777367
Sounds like the run is going great, good luck!
>>53779836
Console all the way.
>>53780417
>>53780515
>>53780901
You just started and already the randomizer trolling. At least Deino will get a chance to shine, and Dragon Rage is so good for the beginning! Good luck, and i really mean it.
>>53781082
Congratulations! Two White runs at the same time should be interesting.
>>53781334
I get wanting new Eeveelutions, but... no.
>>53781430
Join the club we've got jackets.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 06:19:33 No.53781806 Report

Quoted By: >>53782906 >>53786793

>cocky after sweeping the first 3 white gyms
>elesa kills 3 of my mons

AKIN

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AKIN Thu 11 May 2023 13:30:12 No.53782906 Report

Quoted By: >>53782940

Quick bump before the workday: we made it through Victory Road, though not without cost. A crit from a Staraptor in Victory Road took out Mesmer. Well, there goes my Shadow Ball TM. Cool. Replacing him is Merzbow the Chimecho, decked out with the Screen moves and Grass Knot.
We beat the final rival battle fight, though his own Staraptor and Heracross gave us some trouble. Still didn't lose anyone at least. Up next, the final gauntlet.

>>53781806
It be like that sometimes, Anon.
>>53781590
Yeah, the Coumarine Gym might be the easiest one in the whole franchise. Still, good work!
>>53781082
Congrats! That's a pretty fun mix of Pokemon you got there; some staples with some oddballs.
>>53780901
>>53780606
Back at it again, huh anon? Best of luck for a smoother ride this go around. As for my Lumineon, I'm partially using it to save the good Water-types for future runs (also I need a special attacker), partially to tempt fate. We'll see how Eno does I guess!
>>53780578
Deathless Wattson with that team is impressive! Combusken I guess deals with the Magneton, but you still could've lost it to the Voltorb or Manectric. Still, great work!

Ronja

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Ronja Thu 11 May 2023 13:40:30 No.53782925 Report

Quoted By: >>53782940 >>53782952 >>53786793

You have got to be fucking kidding me
I swear to god I'm not cheating these in
AND IT'S ANOTHER GOLDEN BIRD WHAT IS THIS

Ronja

Ronja Thu 11 May 2023 13:45:16 No.53782940 Report

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>>53782925
Huh, not sure why my image was Australia'd, but oh well, we managed to catch the THIRD GOLDEN BIRD

>>53782906
Aw man, that sucks losing Mr. Mime (and the Shadow Ball TM) that late, hopefully you'll still be able to pull through, the DP league is at least slightly easier than the Platinum one

>Deathless Wattson with that team is impressive! Combusken I guess deals with the Magneton, but you still could've lost it to the Voltorb or Manectric. Still, great work!
Speaking of version differences, Ruby thankfully doesn't have to deal with Manectric, so Pop Off Sis was just able to melt through the magnets and Voltorb

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 13:48:59 No.53782952 Report

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>>53782925
Holy fuck I’m jealous
Congrats anon, that’s like one of the best shinies in the game

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 15:58:45 No.53783507 Report

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bump

AKIN

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AKIN Thu 11 May 2023 17:19:03 No.53783922 Report

Quoted By: >>53783924

Real quick, I’ll bring up how I’m using level caps to explain how this Elite Four run went. Normally, I’ve been setting the level cap at the average level of the boss’ team before I go into the gym, evil base, whatever. I’ve found this doesn’t really work for the Elite Four, as if I make it the mean for the Champ’s team, the whole thing is too easy; if I make it the mean for the entire Elite Four plus Champion, then the early Elite Four fights are too easy, and the Champion’s team is extremely difficult. So, my approach is to use Rare Candies in my backpack, and set my team’s level at the mean level of the Elite Four member I’m about to fight before I fight them, and level up for each boss. Some of you may consider this an exploit, but this run I found it made each boss fight a reasonable challenge given my team.
>Aaron
Not too much to report with this fight, this is mostly the Luna and Lliira show, stalling everything down. The scariest moment of this fight was the Heracross, but a crit from Hippolyta’s Stone Edge came in clutch to OHKO it. This will not be the last time Hippolyta is clutch in this gauntlet.
>Bertha
Atlas swept. What do you want me to say, this one is easy for a Torterra.
>Flint
Thanks to a Swift Swim boosted Surf, Eno cleaned up both his Rapidash and Infernape. Good work little guy. From there, Atlas, Lliira, and Hippolyta cleaned up the rest.
>Lucian
This one almost went tits up. His Alakazam proved to be a real problem for the rest of my team, and everyone was incredibly low by the time Hippolyta was forced to enter the field. He finished the Girafarig, but Lliira was too low to safely switch into the Bronzong. I was probably going to have to sack Hippolyta here. Hippolyta used Megahorn and… it was a critical hit. One hit KO. Holy fuck, Hippolyta, you absolute monster.

AKIN

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AKIN Thu 11 May 2023 17:20:42 No.53783924 Report

Quoted By: >>53786793

>>53783922
>Cynthia
Alright, you know what time it is. Luna starts off the fight by using Toxic on the Spiritomb, and Lliira switches in to tank the rest of its Psychics. Expectedly then, she switches in Lucario; a pivot to Atlas and an Earthquake later, and the Lucario is down. She switches to Roserade and I opt to stay in to keep Earthquaking. She switches to her Milotic, and this is where I fuck up big time. She uses Surf once and it doesn’t do too much; I opt to keep Razor Leafing because I have Leech Seed and a Sitrus Berry and I assume it won’t OHKO. It crits, and does. Rest in Peace Atlas, I let you down. From there, Merzbow cleans it up with Grass Knot (which I should’ve switched too in the first place. In comes the real final boss: the Garchomp. I opt to set up Reflect with Merzbow, but then I remember that Brick Break breaks screens. Well shit. I guess my only move is to chip away with Psychic. Then Cynthia does something inexplicable: she uses Giga Impact when Merzbow is in red HP. Holy shit, I have a chance. In comes Eno, uses Ice Beam. It doesn’t kill. Garchomp uses Earthquake, ENO FUCKING TANKS IT, and finishes off the Garchomp with another Ice Beam. From there, Lliira and Hippolyta clean up Roserade and Gastrodon respectively.

And just like that, we are fucking Champions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 20:55:04 No.53784985 Report

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emergency bump

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 May 2023 21:52:22 No.53785309 Report

Quoted By: >>53786793

>>53779660
>>53779670

>I'll train up on these Gravellers and Geodudes
>They can't use self-destruct on Duskull
>Crit Rock Throw

oh well was looking forward to using this ghost and now he's ultra dead

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 00:42:00 No.53786095 Report

Quoted By: >>53786793

>make it through white E4 with only 1 loss (chandelure)
>wipe to N, partly bad plays partly bad luck, also didn't bring zekrom with me
>restart and do the battle again just to do it
>win with only 2 losses
>sweep ghetsis with excadrill
it hurts bros.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 03:31:39 No.53786793 Report

Quoted By: >>53786796 >>53787390 >>53788179 >>53791613

Clemont did not break the streak. In fact, i think i'm actually more disappointed here than i was with Ramos.
>Lead with Loretta holding Leftovers and Swords Dance twice, one shotting Emolga
>Heliolisk emerges, switch into Salvador to Light Screen to resuce Grass Knot's damage
>"Heliolisk used Quick Attack!"
>Forfuckssake.jpeg
>Switch back into Loretta, using Dig to whittle down the heals until the KO
>Strength Magneton then Dig
Never thought i'd be bitching about an easy gym battle, but it's comical at this point how easy the gyms have been. Am i just overestimating how heavy Loretta is? That's the only explination i can think of for why two gym leaders in a row have opted not to use the super effective move based on the foe's weight.
>>53781806
Cockyness is the number two killer in Nuzlockes. Number one is not having any Antidotes.
>>53782925
I once found a shiny Fearow and Onix on the same route in Platinum one after the other. I wonder how rare that is? Congrats.
>>53783924
>Lumineon not only survives, but also survives and revenge kills Garchomp
Hell yeah! That's what i'm talking about. Sucks you lost Atlas right at the end, but at least you can use Grass Knot effectively.
Did Merzbow survive? It's kinda unclear to me.
>>53785309
Hindsight is 20/20. Who are you gonna use now?
>>53786095
Ouch.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 03:34:03 No.53786796 Report

Quoted By: >>53788179 >>53797631

>>53786793
Realized it a second too late.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 06:57:59 No.53787267 Report

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Night bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 08:08:57 No.53787390 Report

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>>53786793
I've got a Chingling. I'll train it up hopefully so it'll be a Chimecho. I'll use that for the fighting gym as it'll have psychic moves as well as been immune to Bone Rush. It'll be another mon I can synergise with gravller for earthquake stuff.

Plus means I ain't risking any of the OG team. That said Staravia can get the intimidate off and clean up if needed.

AKIN

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AKIN Fri 12 May 2023 12:59:21 No.53788179 Report

Quoted By: >>53789865 >>53790796 >>53791613

One final update before the next run, movesets and all that. Four clutchgods on display here to be added to the Hall of Champions. Up next is Pearl!

..Though with Tears of the Kingdom out now, I can't promise how consistent these updates will be.

>>53786793
>>53786796
Yeah, Merzbow died unfortunately. But not in vain however, because he apparently did something to piss Cynthia's Garchomp off so badly that she opted to use Giga Impact and waste a turn when any move would've killed. Godspeed, little soldier.
Yeah, so Diggersby is 93.5kg so that should be at least 80 base power. No idea why the AI is not using it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 17:06:24 No.53788996 Report

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Bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 20:28:44 No.53789865 Report

Quoted By: >>53790209

>>53788179
>she opted to use Giga Impact and waste a turn when any move would've killed
That's why i've recently come to the conclusion that Hyper Beam and Giga Impact are more trouble than they're worth in a Nuzlocke, except maybe on the final Pokémon. It's just too risky to not be able to switch out afterwards.
Maybe Loretta was actually faster than Heliolisk and the algorithm knew i'd one shot and settled for chipping me down. Still really dumb, but that's the only other thing i can think of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 May 2023 21:39:28 No.53790209 Report

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>>53789865
>That's why i've recently come to the conclusion that Hyper Beam and Giga Impact are more trouble than they're worth in a Nuzlocke, except maybe on the final Pokémon. It's just too risky to not be able to switch out afterwards.
there's a few high value targets that are worth the risk or sacrifice like cynthia's garchomp. it's like letting a pokemon learn selfdestruct or explosion, just hyper beam and giga impact gives you a nonzero chance of your pokemon surviving

Ronja

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Ronja Fri 12 May 2023 23:46:09 No.53790796 Report

Quoted By: >>53791613

Flannery defeated after quite an extensive grinding session! I didn't have a solid counter against her Torkoal, so I kinda hoped and prayed that our team's sheer strength would be enough to deal with it, but we nearly made it out without a loss. Flannery's Slugma's were easily oneshot by Cereal Yum's Return, but then in came Torkoal. Cereal Yum managed to hit it with a Teeter Dance and a Hypnosis before switching in to Pop Off Sis to tank the first Overheat, but the darn thing managed to shake off the sleep and confusion immediately and doing about 50% of our HP. I tried setting up a Bulk Up to see if that might help, but we were simply doing too little damage, forcing us to go into Love Shack who was also whittled away far too quickly. At this point our three strongest mons were all weakened and in range to be KOd by a strong Body Slam, so our only hope left was Frolica Fields. I send her in and Torkoal immediately goes for Overheat, Frolica Fields just barely hanging on at about 20% HP. Thankfully at this point the Torkoal is at -4 SpA, and with a really lucky first try poisoning from Poison Sting we're able to slowly but surely drain the dreaded tortoise's HP by spamming Moonlight and Protect, thankfully avoiding paralysis from Body Slam thanks to Shield Dust. Dustox really is a great nuzlocke mon, what an absolute champ

>>53788179
Hell yeah, what an absolutely banger team that was, sad that Atlas and Merzbow couldn't quite make it, but they did their best, still such an incredible move getting Lumineon to the end!

Ronja

Ronja Sat 13 May 2023 01:07:11 No.53791126 Report

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No need for another image since the team is basically the same, but...Norman was just soloed by Cereal Yum. I'm almost a little speechless. I started out the battle with Frolica Fields for the usual Protect spam strategy, but after misclicking Protect on Slaking's first Truant and then being forced to waste a third from it outspeeding and using Encore, I knew I had to switch strategies right away. I switched into Cereal Yum thinking that she could at least do some chip damage and potentially mess with the Slaking using Teeter Dance, or Hypnosis if I wanted to get a safe switch-in. What proceeded to happen was Cereal Yum OUTSPEEDING THE SLAKING to land a Teeter Dance, the Slaking hitting itself in confusion. She then landed a crit Return which did well over half Slaking's HP, allowing her to weaken it enough next turn to where it killed itself in confusion. Norman then immediately sends in the next Slaking, which proceeds to waste all of its turns trying and failing to use Focus Punch as Cereal Yum blasts it with Return and adding another victory to the list. Norman's last line of defense comes in, but it simply stood no chance, Cereal Yum outspeeding the Vigoroth and oneshotting it with another crit Return.
...she didn't lose a single point of HP that entire battle

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 02:20:52 No.53791450 Report

Quoted By: >>53791613 >>53795807

>>53780901
The next few days flew by like a blur for Winston.

His newfound partner had destroyed the Striaton gym in only two moves- not even taking damage along the way. His other teammates quickly came and went.

The Makuhita that briefly accompanied them left once she'd reached her destination, delighted to have met up with a friend of hers and remained in one piece along the way. A Lillipup had joined them, too, but Mavis ended up scaring the poor thing off with her intensive training routine and an insistence that the new teammate was too fragile to be a mainstay. A Wynaut had even entertained them for some time... but soon after his evolution, he too left due to Mavis' personality.

It got to a point where, at the second gym, Winston could only say he had two real team members. Mavis and a Finneon (named Aurora).
He soon took his Deino aside and gave her a stern talking-to so that she could understand one single principle: Mavis may have been his partner, but it was not okay to scare off every team mate they had just because she disapproved. This was a joint venture, but Winston was the one in power here.
Just to make sure she understood, the boy gave his partner a death glare...

...and was brushed off with almost no acknowledgement. Mavis seemed more peeved than anything by his little self-righteous speech.

Sigh.

He'd get through to her eventually...

storyanon

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storyanon Sat 13 May 2023 03:00:11 No.53791613 Report

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>>53791450
fucking bugs man

>>53788179
ayyy, fuck yeah! Awesome team to see make it! Serious shame you lost your starter at the finish line, but at least he still gets to be in the Hall of Fame (in-game). Also funny that right after your Lumineon destroyed Cynthia I found a Finneon to use in my own game lol.
Good luck with Pearl!! I'm looking forward to the run :D

>>53790796
god damn dude, you just stole all of my shiny luck in Nuzlockes for yourself didn't you lol
this makes no sense and I'm well aware. just know that these last few runs have been the first I've done in years where I haven't gotten at least one shiny per playthrough lol
Absolutely beyond based to see a Spinda of all things put Norman through the ringer, and even seeing a shiny Swablu at all brings me great joy so I'm rooting for him to survive super hard. Good luck man.

>>53786793
No, I think XY's AI is just dogshit unfortunately. I once swept Grant with a half-health Slowpoke because he just never bothered to use Crunch for whatever reason...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 05:35:33 No.53792174 Report

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Is Vimmdotnet still a good place to get roms?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 05:43:38 No.53792205 Report

Quoted By: >>53792407

Can anyone tell me if there's a version of HG/SS that's similar to Renegade Platinum?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 06:41:47 No.53792407 Report

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>>53792205
There is, by the same guy, but as I understand it's old and bad, and he's been working on a new version for years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 11:07:37 No.53792985 Report

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Any Mons you consider too broken for your Nuzlockes?
Gyarados is a fairly common ban because of Intimidate, stupid high stats and Dragon Dance, but what others do you consider busted?
In BW, I find the Route 4 encounters to all be close to broken, while Excadrill is probably as bannable as Gyarados.

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 11:15:35 No.53792999 Report

Quoted By: >>53793408 >>53795195 >>53795617

Starting a y nuzlocke run

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 13:37:04 No.53793244 Report

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Since my last post on hgss, I destroyed Morty with insomnia noctowl, which he can't touch at all.

For the 5th gym, the primeape was so scary. I got one leech seed and afterwards I literally couldn't get a single hit in after the first of 6 double teams. Afterwards the primeape was free to rock slide and focus punch until the leech seed killed it after a hyper potion. If only I had an aerial acing spearow that didn't get critted by a -3 attack, -6 accuracy, paralyzed miltank. The poliwrath was not so interesting.

For the 6th gym, I choose for the ice gym, as the team rocket hideout can have a garanteed geodude encounter and I did not possess an adequate response towards jasmine's magnemites considering my team consists of primarily water and flying types or pokemons with non-existent sp.def, not by choice.

pryce was a joke, as his seel and dewgong cannot deal with choice specs amphoros.

I'm now EV training the graveler for HP and attack until it hits the level cap of 35 and then I'm going to destroy jasmine with choice specs gyarados of all things.

I've also done some calcs for claire and belly drum return poliwrath should barely be able to sweep her only because my poliwhirl has 1-3 attack IVs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 14:37:47 No.53793408 Report

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>>53792999
very cute!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 16:30:05 No.53793927 Report

Quoted By: >>53793952

YOOOO FAMALAM
It was even the first encounter

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 16:35:50 No.53793952 Report

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>>53793927
Best nature as well (I think?)

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 19:00:41 No.53794741 Report

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>Intentionally hunting for shiny Sudowoodo gets me nothing
>Everyone else gets them like candy
I see how it is.

storyanon

storyanon Sat 13 May 2023 20:23:26 No.53795195 Report

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>>53792999
based drawfag, these guys give me life
urgent and important question: are pip and fugl friends

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Anonymous Sat 13 May 2023 22:05:18 No.53795617 Report

Quoted By: >>53795852 >>53798363

>>53792999
Got a green thing
Also replaced bird and rabbit with squirtle and swordguy (skarp). Skarp is fucking amazing early on, fucks furfrous right up.
>>53795195
They’re pen pals now

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storyanon Sat 13 May 2023 22:42:13 No.53795807 Report

Quoted By: >>53795852 >>53798973

>>53791450
Unfortunately for Winston, things didn't get much better from there.

After chasing a bunch of LARPers through the forest because of Mavis' own distaste for them, the poor trainer was dragged all the way to Castelia to find them- only for everyone to get lost within a few hours and unable to find their way either in or out of the city.
A ground-type couple offered to help- a Trapinch and a Drilbur respectively- saying that they could guide the group to Nimbasa, through a somewhat treacherous desert, with little trouble.

But Mavis, ever the stubborn mon, refused their help and said she wouldn't accept help from a pair of mon half her size. So the pair left, with the Drilbur in particular turning back to chastise the Deino for her attitude, leaving the trio all alone with nowhere to go.

And that's when Winston snapped.

The trainer grabbed his mon by the ear and forced her to LISTEN. Listen, he said, as he reminded her of exactly why he'd said everything he had before Pinwheel Forest.
The boy dragged his mon by the hair to a dark alley and explained what was going to happen. He realized that he was somehow important to Mavis, and that he had power over her in that way.

A long rant soon followed. For Aurora, it was like being trapped back in the Forest where she heard the constant shouts and cries of Pokémon much stronger than her that she'd never be able to see or silence. All she could do was watch as Winston rambled. As he chewed Mavis out for refusing to accommodate Aurora- to even congratulate her for her victory back in Nacrene. How Mavis had dragged the two of them around like trash and refused to do anything nice for them- to elaborate on why she wanted to bring him through this, or to help Aurora out Pinwheel's bogs when they'd first met her, or why she kept chasing every single person they met away from them.

storyanon

storyanon Sat 13 May 2023 22:50:30 No.53795852 Report

Quoted By: >>53798363 >>53798973

>>53795807
It was long, too. The trainer kept going until he was crying, ending on the note that now all three of them were lost due to his "stupid dinosaur". It was more than clear that Winston wasn't ready for this.

And yet... once he was done all that yelling, Mavis somehow had it in her to yell back.
She didn't explain much, but she did say one thing through all the mad replying: that she knew Winston couldn't handle more than her and Aurora, and that's why she wasn't letting him keep more teammates. That if he started trying to keep track of more than two mon, he'd start losing their lives due to his own aloofness and inability to manage his team.

Once she blurted that out, the alley just went silent.
That silence never lifted, either. Winston simply stared at his partner, cheeks stained with tears, and shoved her back in her pokeball without saying a word.
-
these runs tell me that I know way less about mons' level-up movesets than I thought I did. Could've sworn Fearow didn't get Pursuit until like level 22, but nah. Oh well lol, I've used most of my deaths lots of times before so I'm not too torn up about them. I must say that it's really refreshing (and fun) going through the game with such an unusual pair so far. Aurora especially has been doing way more work than I expected, kudos to her

>>53795617
oh shit dude!! That's awesome, congrats! Also glad to know you boxed Pip and he didn't just die lol. Honedge is in fact busted in a game where every dog wants your blood, which makes it all the funnier that you're the only person doing a Kalos Nuzlocke that I've ever seen actually roll a Honedge to use. I hope your run lasts a while, I love these drawings.

>>53794741
This thread has to be blessed, dude. Clearly some anons here are having their shiny luck siphoned by an unknown entity and being redistributed to the lucky few who've gotten shinies in their playthroughs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 01:45:05 No.53796756 Report

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why does Bonsly not have an "evolve" button on its page lol

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Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 05:48:40 No.53797631 Report

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>>53786796
Very quick update. Arrived in Laverre City, all i need to do now is grind up for the gym. The rival battle on route 14 was uneventful, Loretta swept everything with Swords Dance and Return, barring me forgetting Diggersby is ground type, leading to Greninja's Water Shuriken actually having me worried. It only hit twice, but i was worried. Serena is officially smarter than two gym leaders when it comes to type advantage.

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Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 08:32:39 No.53798021 Report

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I'm using MelonDS on both my PC and phone, but it seems like only my phone has an option to speed up the game. Am I missing it on PC?

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Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 11:32:35 No.53798363 Report

Quoted By: >>53802650 >>53803675 >>53806567

>>53795617
Route to the rock gym went uneventful. Still amazed that Mus hasn’t died due to cruel irony yet. Skarp is continually being a beast. Wartortle surprisingly shit, only water move he knows is bubble at lvl 24. Fletchinder isn’t much better, it only knows peck and ember. Hopefully they learn to carry their weight soon.
>>53795852
Thanks brother, never used swordguy before now either, he’s tight af

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Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 14:58:28 No.53798973 Report

Quoted By: >>53799918

>>53795807
>>53795852
Mavis was made to sit out battling for the entire rest of Castelia after that fight.

In fact, Mavis was made to sit out EVERYTHING until just before Nimbasa.

Winston was absolutely adamant about using Aurora- and only Aurora- to prove he could be a competent trainer... and he succeeded. It was a given that he had a tough time during the gym battle, going in with only a Finneon, but despite a large obstacle in the shape of an ancient turtle nearly ending his hopes and dreams Aurora pushed through to bring him to victory.

And then she died.

Upon Winston's first few steps into the Nimbasa desert, he was greeted with the unwelcome sight of a rampaging Marowak hitting everything and everyone it saw. Aurora, badly reminded of the fight from the night before, disregarded Winston's worried shouts and went over to the reptilian stranger to try and calm him down in a vain attempt to stop history from repeating itself... only to be brought down in four fell swoops.

From then on, Winston just ran through the route, avoiding what damage he could whenever he could.
He was only saved from his fate of becoming totally lost by a decrepit Golurk that activated when he heard a cry for help.

And while Mavis was shut in her pokeball, she could hear newcomers join her along Winston's belt. A Blitzle, a Dewott, even a Sudowoodo at one point...

...he really was doing well on his own. She never could've imagined it.

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storyanon Sun 14 May 2023 18:07:53 No.53799918 Report

Quoted By: >>53799937

>>53798973
Life seemed to stabilize somewhat after Winston's victory at Nimbasa gym.

Gym battles tended to be hard-fought but safe. Trainer battles were more of a danger, but remained mostly harmless. It was the wild, rampaging Pokémon across the region that were what Winston's team had to look out for.

Each time they'd encounter one, too, Mavis would react. Winston didn't notice initially- it took a few dangerous encounters and a near-death experience for Winston to actually pay attention to her mood, but once he did he became suspicious.

She wouldn't attack the rampaging mon. Most of the time she'd hide behind teammates. And whenever she didn't, she seemed physically incapable of helping.

The trainer scoffed it up to her terrible personality, especially considering she had scared off yet another round of new recruits, but the thought lingered in the back of his head. It only took priority momentarily, especially since something far more worrying had come up.

As Praug had traveled with the team, Winston noticed the Golurk becoming more and more immobile. Stiffer, quieter, slower... he was never the most agile in the first place, but near Driftveil his illness became especially noticeable.

By the time the team reached the Cold Storage, Praug had shut down and wouldn't turn back on.

Nobody knew how to refuel him- how Golurk even worked in the first place was a mystery to them all- and the best they could do was have him permanently standing guard outside the farmer's market.
And so they did, posing their friend in a friendly salute and a wave to greet anybody who came to shop there...

storyanon

storyanon Sun 14 May 2023 18:13:03 No.53799937 Report

Quoted By: >>53802650

>>53799918
...from there, life became more turbulent for the team.

A number of new recruits couldn't take Mavis' abuse and left. The only ones who remained were either too dumb or too oblivious to care. Kapi and Wottson remained as some of the only bastions of sanity around-

-until Wottson died at the hands of Clay's Golurk, via a bloody Dynamic Punch that destroyed his ribcage in an instant (and his friend Selena's the moment after that).

Clay's Golurk whom nobody had seen before that battle, and nobody had seen since.

Suspicions were raised. The media went wild with the story. Even Mavis seemed more angry at the incident than she had any right to be...
...but the case was closed once Praug's presence by the farmer's market was confirmed to have been there throughout the battle.
-
can you tell that I'm burning out? because I'm burning out a bit lol
maybe doing 2 randomizers back to back wasn't the greatest idea after all, but I'll admit that the fun of using such an eclectic party is outweighing a lot of the grief i'm getting from losing half my new recruits within half an hour of catching them
My writing is getting too edgy even for me though, I'm definitely going to try and make X a little more lighthearted. That'll probably be helped by the fact that I'm not gonna randomize trainers there (they're enough of a danger as-is and I want some stability back) and X's easier difficulty, so I'm looking forward to that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 19:31:19 No.53800330 Report

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>>53725400
To be honest, every fucking time without fail when I get a gible from wayward cave in plat it dies early to some bullshit like a random self destructing geodude, so I'd save it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 May 2023 23:53:07 No.53801320 Report

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Bump.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 03:01:26 No.53802330 Report

Quoted By: >>53802411 >>53802650 >>53803158 >>53803206 >>53806400

Dead nuzlocke hours, time for another discussion topic to keep the thread bumped
Do you remember your first ever nuzlocke? How did it go? What game was it? Any harrowing moments to share?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 03:18:01 No.53802411 Report

Quoted By: >>53802650

>>53802330
I don’t think I remember my first, but I know it was on Omega Ruby. I replayed that game and X exclusively (when doing Nuzlockes) for so long that I feel sick going back to them by this point. I know them inside and out despite never really liking them. Eventually I branched out into the DS games too since that’s what I had available, but only recently have I managed to start playing GB/A stuff (or, god forbid, the Switch shit).
Most of my memories are hazy because it took years for me to have the discipline to play them properly, and then several more to actually win anything. I went from barely using three mon at once and making almost all of my deaths “not count” because “the game was cheating” to having fully-fledged teams of six without overlapping types or glaring weaknesses in most cases.
I fear that, had I not played so many Nuzlockes, I would be so bad at the games that I’d have found Sword and Shield challenging at any point

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 04:19:03 No.53802650 Report

Quoted By: >>53803675

Another easy gym battle, but Valerie is still better than Clemont since she actually made me switch out of crit paranoia.
>Firestar leads and oneshots Mawile with Flamethrower
>Mr. Mime survives and Light Screens, Headbutt crit takes it out
>Sylveon Swifts as Firestar Noble Roar's twice before switching into Amadeus, who scores the Flamethrower KO for the win
Now, for headcanon story reasons, i've decided to add a complication to the mix: Shelly has run off out of rage (she's been boxed for a bit). Am i going to regret boxing one of my tanks on a team mostly comprised of speedy special attackers? More than likely.
>>53798363
This image gives me serious Pokémon but with animals instead vibes and i love it.
>>53799937
You know, even with losing recruits so quickly, this run feels more balanced than Platinum in the deaths to badges ratio. On thr topic of edgy writing, i breifly considered making Shelly an eco terrorist (a reference to her namesake), but i thought it was jumping the shark, so to speak.
>>53802330
My first was Omega Ruby, and i remember it decently well. The most harrowing moments i remember were losing Linoon to Norman's final Slaking (an act which has defined the entire story arc of my Nuzlockes), Mightyena to a Swimmer's Surskit's Silver Wind, and Rayquaza one shotting half my team before getting KO'd (and the WTF moment where it revived and i rralized i needed to catch it).
>>53802411
Funny, i'm the opposite. I've played through Johto and Sinnoh so many times because i was unwilling to erase the teams i had from White onwards. Getting Bank beforr the EShop shutdown really opened up my options going forward.

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 07:03:20 No.53803155 Report

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Night bump.

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 07:04:43 No.53803158 Report

Quoted By: >>53807274

>>53802330
Just posting my own as a means of bumping
Ruby and FireRed at the same time all the way back in 2010.
It was going well until I reached THAT May fight and lost all but my starter to Combusken. Then after only having one capture available to me at that point, I gave up on the run because I didn't think there was any way I was beating Mauville gym with a Grovyle and a Roselia as my only party members. Which is fair because I couldn't even get past the gym trainers without losing my starter.
The FireRed run was going a lot better, only a couple of non-major deaths and I had made it to Lavender town. And then my computer decided to fucking die on me, so that run got cut short.
Both of these runs and how they ended have a very important effect on the story of The Shitty MSPaint Nuzlocke comic
Thankfully I kept the dead computer and just a few years back when another computer died on me, I got something that could hook up to harddrives and I got a backup of everything. So I've been considering picking that FireRed run back up just for fun once I finish my comic.
Or maybe I could somehow incorporate it into my autistic lore.
Here, have a low-quality collage I made of all my fallen party members from that first run that I still have saved from 13 years ago.

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 07:28:29 No.53803206 Report

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>>53802330
I lost my swampert to a trainer who lead with shadow tag wobuffet.

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Ronja Mon 15 May 2023 10:43:15 No.53803675 Report

Quoted By: >>53806400 >>53806567 >>53808657

After surfing 'round all of western Hoenn and finally breaching into the eastern half, we've taken down Winona! Passion evolved just in time for gym, and had the honors of taking down most of Winona's team, easily dealing with her Swellow and her own Altaria, getting a little help from Love Shack against a surprisingly sturdy Pelipper (mostly just so I didn't have to update the confusion statistic) and then coming back in to finish off the Skarmory. All in all a great first battle for our golden child, all that time spent on the sidelines must've motivated him to kick ass!

>>53802650
I like this little mixup, I'm excited to see where this goes in the next update

>>53798363
Absolutely love your drawings, so much soul in them
also, dansk?

Ronja

Ronja Mon 15 May 2023 15:59:45 No.53804717 Report

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At work bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 17:09:55 No.53805015 Report

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>make a new profile on my switch to play a poison playthrough in S/V
>have to go through the entire start of the game again
jesus christ this game hates repeat playthroughs

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 20:21:19 No.53805979 Report

Quoted By: >>53808419 >>53808657

what in theory is the most difficult monotype run in what game?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 20:26:34 No.53806000 Report

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Very quick bump while i'm putting something together.

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 21:42:31 No.53806400 Report

Quoted By: >>53806534 >>53808657

Part of the excitement of nuzlocking comes from using Pokemon I'd never consider, but this playthrough I have the chance to use so many of my favourite Pokemon (Scizor, Magneton, Garchomp, Vaporeon, etc.). Now I'm just torn between making some of my favourite Pokemon champions and using other Pokemon. My encounters for Platinum have been really fortunate so far. No bios at the moment because I haven't had much time!

I just got done with Byron (and realised I forgot to check his badge on my sheet). Ate 6 cups of spinach and I'm feeling weird.

>>53803675
I've been out for a while due to IRL stuff, but I swear I came back here just to see how close you are to tackling Orre. Love to see that you're still going at it! Shiny Altaria is a beauty. How well does Spinda fare, btw?
>>53802330
My first was Sacred Gold. Some of those Team Rocket fights are no joke. There's a part where in the Radio Tower you fight Archer, and then immediately after (no healing) you fight Giovanni. Both have a team of 6. I was really proud to have made it through that ordeal with 0 deaths after having gone in with no preparation.

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 21:44:55 No.53806411 Report

Quoted By: >>53806534 >>53808657

Fuck Machokes.

So after loosing Luxio to a Machoke.
So after loosing Duskull to a Crit.

I lost my Staravia to Maylenes Machoke.

Crit Rock Tomb.
I got careless.
I got birdless.

RIP my mother plucker Staravia.
You'll be missed.

Thinking maybe Togepi can replace him with Togekiss.

Its a big blow now that two of the OG crew are gone.

Ronja

Ronja Mon 15 May 2023 22:07:11 No.53806534 Report

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>>53806400
>Now I'm just torn between making some of my favourite Pokemon champions and using other Pokemon.
Personally I find it's good to keep a balance, to have one or two mons that you like and you know that are good, and some that you've never used and don't know how they'll fare exactly

>I've been out for a while due to IRL stuff, but I swear I came back here just to see how close you are to tackling Orre. Love to see that you're still going at it! Shiny Altaria is a beauty. How well does Spinda fare, btw?
Oh gosh, I'm flattered! I'm also really excited to have Orre just around the corner, I've pretty much been looking forward to it since I started, so it can't come soon enough!
Spinda actually fares surprisingly well, after EV training it fully in Attack and Speed she's actually able to twoshot and even oneshot a whole lot of stuff with STAB Return and Focus Punch, and thanks to Hypnosis/Teeter Dance she actually has plenty of opportunities to fire off Focus Punch. I don't know if you saw higher up in the thread, but she actually soloed Norman without even taking damage, which admittedly was partially sheer luck, but she still did it!

>>53806411
Aw man, that rips, rest well Staravia
As you said tho, Togekiss would at least be a good replacement, it even gets a strong Fighting move to fill that niche

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 22:12:16 No.53806567 Report

Quoted By: >>53808657

>>53803675
>also, dansk?
jeps
>>53798363
FUCKKKK Skarp the Honedge died to a wobuffetts destiny bond. I even made sure he was totally out of destiny bonds before i killed him, but i forgot that the efects of a destiny bond is in effect an entire turn after it was used. So yeah, threw away the best guy on the team for no reason. FUckkk. He's replaced by horn the heracross for the time being.
Fugl also died, but honestly i don't care. He was so shit. 28 levels and his best moves were ember and peck. pathetic excuse for a bird. He's replaced by sprutte the Malamar who is amazing as expected, defeated korrina along with Bille the Vivillion.
Still mad about swordbro. fuckkkk.

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 00:31:00 No.53807274 Report

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As inspired by >>53803158, i've decided to make a showcase of my first Nuzlocke ans the team that carried me to victory. I obviously don't remember everything in detail, so the deaths are the broad strokes of what i remember. I just thought it might be fun to share my first journey that helped shape the continuous narritive of my Nuzlockes. I'll be back with an X update soon enough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 01:53:21 No.53807668 Report

Quoted By: >>53808419

What's the best emulator for phone? I don't want it to drain my battery.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 05:32:14 No.53808419 Report

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>>53805979
Mono Fire in DPPT probs?
>>53807668
So far MelonDS has been my go-to, dunno about other systems though.

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 07:09:19 No.53808657 Report

Quoted By: >>53808787 >>53808985

Anistar City. It's weird to think we're almost at the endgame. It doesn't feel that long ago we started. Regardless, the rival fight was swept by Loretta, again, even with the threat of a five hit Water Shuriken. The game has been very generous with with rng, and i suspect it'll try and screw me over later on. No gym tonight, i've gotta get to bed.
>>53803675
Very nice team. Do you ever notice the gender ratio of your teams is usually split right down the middle?
>I'm excited to see where this goes in the next update
Well, it lasted a route and a dungeon, better than i thought it would last. Next update, post Anistar gym, will be the culmination of most of the remaining character arcs for the party.
>>53805979
Mono Fire DP for only having two party members.
>>53806400
Nice looking team Popeye. When are you gonna evolve Magneton?
>>53806411
Jackets are in the corner, wear it with... i don't know, trepidation?
>>53806567
You know, it feels like a lot of Kalos Pokémon move bad movesets early on. Litleo has to use Ember until level 36, Diggersby has to use an even worse off special attack until Dig at 37, Fletchinder doesn't even get Aerial Ace, most of the good TM's are expensive or locked until the end of the game. At least Espurr got Psybeam early enough This with all the gift Pokémon makes me suspect GF just wanted you to use (insert Kanto starter here) and Lucario instead.

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 08:30:01 No.53808787 Report

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>>53808657
>This with all the gift Pokémon makes me suspect GF just wanted you to use (insert Kanto starter here) and Lucario instead
Except that even wartortle and charmeleon only gets to learn a decent fire and water move at lvl 28. Seems every pokemon was gimped since they just expected you to pump your team full of infinite TM's.

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Ronja Tue 16 May 2023 10:32:07 No.53808985 Report

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>>53808657
>Do you ever notice the gender ratio of your teams is usually split right down the middle?
...wow, yeah, that IS weird, I went back and checked and it's true for both Silver and Crystal, only Gold had an uneven ratio at the end, but that was only because I decided to champ my male shiny Noctowl instead of Babybel the Miltank, spooky

also, picrel Poseidon now that he's grown a few inches

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 11:07:45 No.53809075 Report

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>>53777818
Alright final two encounters for me were a Wailmer in Evergrande City which I named Wailordman, and on Victory Road I caught a Makuhita which promptly evolved into Hariyama.

Anyway, here's what I'm going into Victory Road with, but I may replace Sharpedo with Tentacruel for the optional waterfall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 12:43:33 No.53809242 Report

Quoted By: >>53809385

>doing a poison playthrough of SV
>realize that 90% of the poison mons in SV are either super slow or straight up bad
why do they keep doing poison dirty like this, at least glimmora is a rad new mon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 13:43:53 No.53809385 Report

Quoted By: >>53809389

>>53809242
>glimmora
you can only get him after the elite 4 though

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 13:45:13 No.53809389 Report

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>>53809385
No, you can find Glimmets in a surprising amount of caves around Paldea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 14:04:22 No.53809460 Report

Quoted By: >>53809466 >>53809733

Thoughts on adding pokemon as starters when you already have all the standard starters in your Hall of Fame?

Doing a Autismlocke, finished with all third gen games plus Pearl. Annoys the fuck out of me that the only fucking game you can get an Ursaring with Guts is in fucking Soul Silver just before the last gym leader. Seriously considering starting the game with Teddiursa.

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 14:07:47 No.53809466 Report

Quoted By: >>53809676 >>53809733

>>53809460
Might as well post my perticular home-made brand of autism

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 15:08:45 No.53809676 Report

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>>53809466
why you been running so many 5 mon teams

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 15:20:24 No.53809733 Report

Quoted By: >>53809938

>>53809460
If I'm out of starters for a region, I usually just find what the next available encounter would be and give myself that as a starter, or a choice between 3 if there's more than one you can get in the same area. I think as long as your starter is somewhat in line with or below actual stater BSTs it's pretty fair game.

>>53809466
<-- Here's my Hall of Fame so far

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 16:20:37 No.53809938 Report

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>>53809733
>someone actually used mawile
based, my favorite mon

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 18:57:18 No.53810556 Report

Quoted By: >>53810636

new bread where?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 19:17:15 No.53810636 Report

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>>53810556
Gimme a moment, trying to find a good image of the Paldea starters

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Anonymous Tue 16 May 2023 19:23:58 No.53810672 Report

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New Bread >>53810669

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