I want to fucking die. Don't believe /vp/ its a challenging

>summons Sunny Day Castform then hits you with Solar Blade

neat.

>>29865870
kys

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it summoned a Trumbeak when I fought it

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>>29865870
Too bad it gets easy later.

That was the easiest totem battle for me, i only needed the fire starter for it.

Wishiwashi was hard tho
>summons Alomomola with healing pulse
>rain for the whole battle

I guess everything depends on how good your team is against each type.

I could imagine this being an absolute pain to Nuzlocke with Z-Moves around. Send out the wrong mon at the wrong time, they're getting nuked.

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>>29865870
>Battle Dexio post-game
>realize my team has a crippling weakness to psychic types, which makes up over half his team if not all

>>29865870
>Not anticipating future threats and building your team around them
>building your team like the ashnime
this game was designed to challenge children

Honestly the totems could fuck up a nuzlocke.

>>29865942
>Wishiwashi was hard tho

Yeah he was a little hard for me too. The only move I had to hit him SE with was Cutiefly's Absorb, and Wingull was my only water resistance.

Finally. The people who were saying that Pokemon has always been easy (aka nintendo dick sucker Joe) is about to be BTFO.

>ITT People forget the core rule of Nuzlocke: GRIND BITCH

>>29865993
Exactly what happened to me. Also hau fucking sweeped my whole team with his alolan raichu when he first got it.

>>29865870
Nuzlocking is for autist.

>>29866031
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>29865908
that's fucking hilarious

I might Nuzlocke this after all

>>29865942
>That was the easiest totem battle for me, i only needed the fire starter for it.

I had the fire starter and it wasn't so easy
>Synthesis healing more damage than I can deal with Torracat
>Castform headbutting me to death

I still won, but that's the only part of the fight I remember.

>>29866089
based anon

>>29865942
It depends entirely on if you brought the right pokemon/z-move, or if it summons the harder one of its possible adds

I dropped wishiwashi in two sparks from charjabug, and it only summoned a school-less wishiwashi that was a non-issue

Then totem mimikyu later on summoned a gengar that almost one shotted my decidueye before I could one shot it in return

>>29866031
TWO
W
O

>>29866170
I think it largely depends on what the Pokemon summons. The Wishiwashi usually summons healbot Alomola that spam heal pulse and refresh. The Mimikyu just summoned a harmless Haunter for me that liked to spam Hypnosis.

>>29865870
>Mimikyu outspeeds 90% of the Alola dex
>Mimikyu spams Play Rough and one hits your whole team
>Mimikyu summons Haunter who spam sleep
>Mimikyu takes no damage from the first hit so it will get an ally + damage on your lead

Legit difficult. I had 5 fainted pokemon from that fucker.

>>29865934
I killed the Castform knowing what it was gonna try to do. The Trumbeak was actually worse for my party... kept spamming Screech and Supersonic making switching more inviting but if I did, I needed to switch into a Grass-Resist so I didn't get 1-shot by Solar Blade. Really fun fight.

>>29865939
Yeah, the Totems 2-4 were arguably the hardest fights in my opinion, getting harder with each fight:
>Heal Pulse Alomamola + Sitrus Berry Wishiwashi
>Toxic Salandit + Venoshock Sp.Atk Berry Salazzle Both faster than everything I had at that point
>Sunny Day Castform or Screech Supersonic Trumbeak + White Herb Solar Blade Lurantis

But you could tell they only made them this hard cause they're weak to the previous Z-Crystal you were given so you could plan to rush them down with Z-Power.

Play Rough Mimikyu could've been horrible though if I let the Haunters do their thing.

I had to use a max revive on Fuzzy the Cutiefly after it got tagteamed by Castform Lurantis and later a Trumbeak.
My Magnemite TW them and got hit by a critical fire type Weather Ball.
Brionne locked the totem into growl and Z-nuked the Trumbeak that summoned after Castform.
Then I spammed Strugglebug.

>>29865939
That's pretty much every nuzlocke and Pokemon game. Hard early game because of all the random shit, then everything just gets ran the fuck over once you hit about Lv. 40.

>>29866218
Of course, almost every totem fight can be trivialized if you have the right z-move to take them out on the first turn

The only reason lurantis gave me any trouble at all was because I didn't grind for flame burst and z-ember just barely missed the OHKO, then it started spamming synthesis and dragged the whole thing out

>>29866287
He killed me twice. He also has a Lum Berry if you try to status him. Hardest battle in the game for me.

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>Charjabug saves the day yet again

Nigga solo carried my team against Wishiwashi too.
My bro this gen for sure

>>29866392
Charjabug and Whishiwashi are ridiculously good in-game. Sometimes I feel like they are the only ones in my team doing anything.

>>29866085
You are on /vp/

>>29866385
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Toxic puts all of these fights on a timer if you people are actually having a hard time with it. Salazzle is too good for the main game.

>>29865870
Wait until Lana's Araquanid water Z-move in the rain

>>29865993
His mega alakazam fucking swept me since mega gets prio now

>>29865870
Prepare to die again when you play my mod...

>>29866392
Eviolite Charjabug is my GOAT teammate.

>>29866085
You have to go back, Pedro

A large part of Totems is getting lucky that they don't summon their one OP ally.
Regardless, I've still not beaten one first try. Did the electric one earlier, killed the totem, then fucking died to his ally.

>>29865870
it's actually challenging? oh my god, i can finally enjoy pokemon games then

>>29865870
lmao after beating the game and I think only once I had a pokemon faint. Had I done a nuzlocke and my party would have barely changed

Low level/minimum grind run of this game with no Z moves is pretty challenging.
It's hard to build a solid team almost intentionally in the first two islands. Most Pokemon are baby ones so dragging something like Pichu around to evolve it makes it even harder.

I only beat totem wishiwoshi because I chose the grass starter and gave it a scope lens.

I'm not even level 20 yet. Only like 17-19.

>>29865870
Didn't lose a single battle against any of the totemons. What pissed me off is long long is takes for the turn to process and the frame rate.

>Torracat w/Fire Fang and Acrobatics
>first turn use Fire Fang
>Lurantis summons Castform
>second turn Lurantis heals, use Acrobatics so that the damage wasn't high enough to make it use Sythesis again
>Castform uses sunny day
>third turn Lurantis does spirit blade, survive and use fire Z-move, killing it
>finish off Castform

That's what I did anyway. Can probably use any starter so long as your attack is good enough to deal decent damage with fire. Main thing is dealing just enough damage for Lurantis to not heal and waiting for Sunny Day before using the z-move.

>>29867150
Can probably use any fire type I meant, though they of course need to be able to survive long enough.

>>29865870
Lurantis was easy for me, but fucking Wishiwashi was hell. Motherfucker summoned an Alomomola to heal it.

>>29866579
where do you find the eviolite?

>>29866392
>tfw a 9 volt battery stag beetle pupa kills a giant school of fish

>>29867275
KoniKoni City, second island, near the Pikachu.

>>29865870

How did you mess this up?

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>>29866568

>Totem Magikarp appeared
>All Stats are boosted to max

>>29866776

With no exp share Magnemite walled the first totems. I don't think they dropped me below 50% hp.
I hear good things about Diglett as well, but in my experience it's not that bad. I've even been avoiding trainers.

>>29867340
No, you know I'd make it a Gyrados...

>>29867340
Would have been cool if pokemon could evolve mid battle.
That thing would be terrifying.

>>29867416
Will it summon school form Wishiwashi, lightning rodbros, or healfishes?

>>29867529
Evolutions mid-battle is something that definitely needs to be implemented in the next gen.

>>29867579
Why not all 3?

>>29867617
TotemFunbro please

>>29866031
There are 2 genders

> Totem Miltank appear
> Summons Blissey as support

FUUUUUUUU

Guys, I died to the teacher (from the game's beginning) with her Magnemite because my Yugoos, Pikipek, and Popplio couldn't do shit... Also, how do we divide areas in this game, like is the side above your house different to the one by your right ? (Route 1/ Route 1 - Hau'oli Outskirts).

Funny how the early ones were the hardest, but the later ones were piss easy.

I OHKO'd the Komomo-o

>>29867642
Romhackers need to get on this RIGHT NOW!

>>29867733
>Hacked Huge Power Totem Slaking with Oranguru support

>>29867763
I've heard that battle has ended quite a few Nuzlockes.

>>29867896
>Totem Slaking used Giga Impact!
>Totem Slaking used Giga Impact!

>>29867874
It's pretty common for games to be hardest early on when your options and resources are limited and/or weak

>>29867932
Isn't it wonderful?

Imagine a Totem Arceus that summons the Sinnoh trio for help. How much fun can be had for you hackers from this feature?

Totem Toxapex

>>29867874
So was there a fairy totem battle? Where does Komomo-o fit in?

>>29867985
This. Nobody ever talks about it due to the anti gen 6 circlejerk, but some of the battles in early game XY legit drove me to despair. I still get flashbacks of the double Furfrous and that moonlight/double team spamming Volbeat.

finally a challenge
nuzlocke will be fun in sm ayy

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>>29868071
Hey don't forget Gen 5 too

>>29865917
Who the fuck touched you as a kid

>>29866392
Honestly, how the FUCK do we evolve it?

>>29868148
Power plant level up. They added new location evolutions this gen.

>>29868166
Okay, now how do I get in there? Or do I just run around outside?

>>29868071
I had so many problems against Grant in my bug mono run.

>>29868192
No idea I didn't pirate it because I'm a lazy faggot.

>>29866184
>>29867673
Can someone explain this? Is this the new alolomola?

>>29868241
Jimmy is just a notorious genderfluid tripfag.

>>29867617
Did the pk3ds devs already figure out how to edit totem Pokémon? Sweet! Also, just make charjabug evolve at level 35

>>29865870
>people lost to this
Trumbeak tanks solar beam like a boss, and easily KOs the totem mon from 90%.

On another note, did anyone find a Castform in the jungle? They're there, supposedly, but I searched for an hour and nothing.

>>29868295
Try 31, since that's when vikavolt is supposed to learn bug buzz instead of x-scissor

>>29868192
In poni island

>>29866109
Wishiwashi is fought in the rain, uses Soak to cancel your STAB attacks, and summons Alomomola to heal the boss.

Pretty decent Totem Pokemon fights if you ask me.

>>29868416
What? Poni Island shouldn't have a power plant. The power plant is on the third one, Ula-Ula or whatever.

>>29868148
Level up in Poni Canyon

Not nuzlocking but played through the game and I can say the difficulty increased quite a bit. Most of the time I had to use items like a madman to not Black out. I suppose XY and ORAS spoiled me with its toddler friendly difficulty

>>29868445
It's not at the power plant

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>>29865993
>my mimikyu setups sword dance and sweeps team with leech life and shadow claw

>>29867292
It's like taking a bath with a toaster.

>>29868064
I think that was just for the demo.

>>29870913
kek

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>>29865870
Yeah, I'm actually legit impressed that there's a bit of a challenge in some fights.

I'm not using exp share but the Pokemon Refresh exp boost is enough to keep me on par with everything. But those totem fights are legit.

These games would probably be terrible to nuzzlocke. On top of the abundant cutscenes, it's really hard to come out of a totem fight or even a Kahuna fight without at least 1 faint.

>>29868064
No Fairy totem battle. Kommo-o is the final totem though.

>>29868418
too bad its only attacking move is Water Gun

the romhacks will be brutal though

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>>29865870
>you have no more pokemon that can fight
I forgot what it looks like when you actually lose

This is exactly where my nuzlocke run ended. Fucking synthesis abusing bitch.

I'm so glad I decided to cancel my no exp share nuzlocke 1 day before it leaked.

Lurantis wiped 4/6 of my team, I thought my Growlithe with the Z-crystal Fire Fang would eat his face instantly, but the bastard summoned Castform and started healing back to full faster than I could damage him, and Solar Blade was powerful enough to wreck my Growlithe even through 0.5x damage.

It feels so fucking good to have boss battles with some actual strategy to them.

Mimikyu totem was worse. Haunter uses hypnosis, mimikyu attacks. Every turn. There is nothing you can do but hope haunter misses. All the alola mons are so slow that he's always getting that move off first.

>>29871841
Mimikyu outspeeds the Haunter, though?

>>29871835
I didn't use exp share but didn't have much problem with this battle at all.

What team was OP using?

>>29871624
Ash please...

>>29865870
>hau team is garbage tier so far
>got to 3rd island
>rape my entire team with aloha raichu
oh boy
This is already harder than bw2

>>29872133
That Raichu has to be EV trained or have good IVs, holy shit it was a bitch to stop.

>>29871578

>too bad

a -2 water gun when it soaked me still did 1/3rd of my health.

Unless you have a Charjabug, a Focus Energy user or a Sweetnee, Wishiwashi's stats are insane at that point.

But I gotta applaud Gamefreak and their totem battles, way more fun than any of the Gen 6 leaders because they actually had some thought put into them.

>>29866392
>Use Charjabug for most of my early game
>Mostly Atk like Bug Bite, Bite and Spark
>Half of the game get Crunch, X-Scissor and Dig
>Other pokemons are evolving (mostly using Magneton at that point)
>Thinking about dropping it for something else like a Mimikyu or Salazzle
>Get to Poni Kahuna
>Level up, get Vikavolt
>Nigga gets the highest Spatk on my team with added Thunderbolt
>One shotting everything in Victory Road

I NEVER SHOULD'VE DOUBTED YOU
This bug is the best, now looking for something like Signal Beam and other Spatk, i love it.

>>29871578
Hydro Pump with Funbro back up to keep it alive and its moves topped up

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>>29865870
>drowned Salazzle with Wishiwashi Hydro Vortex gg ez
>figured I'd do the same thing against Lurantis with my Salandit
>forgot Wishiwashi's stats are fucking jacked for early game compared to a Salandit's
>fire Z move doesnt kill
>ignored the Castform, went for a flame burst to finish off Lurantis
>Lurantis outspeeds, used Synthesis
>Castform used Water Gun
>mfw

>>29872564
>tfw mine was modest
>had 230 SpA by level 55
This thing just tore everything up. Mine had Flash Cannon, Bug Buzz, Agility, Thunderbolt

Fighting Olivia without a grass, fighting or water mon was suffering.

Thankfully I put Grass Knot on my Kadabra. Still, her fucking Lycanrock nearly sweeped my entire team with stab rock throw

>>29865870
>switched Trumbeak with smogonbird since need fire typing
>fought Lurantis expecting ez fight
>brought in Trumbeak and rock throwed smogonbird to death
>kill Trumbeak with magnemite
>ally called castform which does fire ball magnemite to death

Damn, didn't expected to be ravaged that hard. Had to bring back Trumbeak and still had to deal with Synthesis shenanigans. Good fight.

>>29865870
>get two Pokémon knocked out while fighting a lady with a Carbink
>the Pokémon with supereffective moves are weak to rock
>almost kill it
>lady uses full restore

>>29865942
Totem Wishiwashi used Soak first turn on my Charjabug. Thanks for the water resist, pal!

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>Totem Mimikyu
>Start with Incineroar
>Z-Move that shit thinking this would be easy
>Forget it's ability
>Kills me with play rough and summons Haunter
>All my team is fucking useless against those two
>"O-ok, I will send Toxapex"
>Goes with Toxic so merciless will destroy that motherfucker
>Fucking berry activates
>Shadow claw crits me and Haunter puts me to sleep
>I struggle a couple of turns between recover and full heals
>FINALLY poison it, use Venoshock
>Forget about Ghost resisting Poison
>mfw

>>29873038
She's a fucking bitch

>>29866301
This. I recently did a FireRed nuzlocke and after a certain point (I think lvl. 35 or so) I never had to worry about any of my pokemon "dying" anymore since they one-shotted everything anyways.

>>29873038
i remember this

i hate carbinks now

>>29873038
If it makes you feel any better. Find a wild carbink. Bully it and KO its buddies and wait a while. Sableye appears. Watch nature take its course.

In case you guys didn't realise, the Totem pokemon summon different allies depending on how low their health is. Try save resetting and see what'll work for you if you're struggling

>>29873267
Most Nuzlockes have a rule against that.

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>>29873267
>save scumming in a nuzlocke

>>29865870
I think the only totems that WEREN'T in some way a challenge were the Raticate and the Salazzle

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>decided to do a monotype run
>lots of cool ghost type (a-marowak, dhelmise, pallosand, mimikyu, decidueye) and also ghostfag
>build up a decent team and about to finish 3rd island with mons about lv40
>ghost type trial was a joke
>the kahuna stops me by the pier
>fiteme.jpg
>that fucker is dark type
>first two mons fall with ease
>alolan persian
>darkpulse sweep almost all my team
>shitshitshitshitshit
>the only pokemon left was a mimikyu I catched early and leveled up a bit
>spent almost 20 minutes alternating hi-potions and shadow sneak
>he's almost at 0 hp
>'kahuna used max potion!'
>ANOTHER FUCKING 20 MINUTES alternating attacks and hi-potion
>only at the end I land a crit and I fucking finally win

HOLY SHIT THAT WAS INTENSE

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>>29865870
>2 hit Lurantis with Crobat

>>29875028
Just use play rough :^)

yeah but if you never kill the useless first summon he'll never bring out castform
this and wishiwashi were the only creative totems
the rest are throwing brute force at you and pretty easily walled

>>29865870
Get good, or grow up past the age of 6

>>29872564
Too late nigger, It learns Bug Buzz at lv31 and stops learning anything past lv49

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>>29865993
>end up involuntarily fighting sina
>haven't saved in an hour
>my starter is the only one on my team close to her levels
>find out she uses ice types exclusively
>i picked rowlet

Some totem battles where a joke though.
Salazzle was oneshot by a Mudbray.
The dragon was almost oneshot by a mimikyu, the vikvolt was just a matter or whittling out with I can't even remember what pokemon.

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>>29872604
>Hydro Pump with Funbro

>>29875116
Of course they're going to be easy if you have a hard counter

>>29868064
The Fairy captain was chill as fuck.

"Away with the fairies" I guess.

>>29868416
>>>/mlp/

thats what you get for not picking best cat

>>29875668
>having to spam B every time it tires to evolve
No thanks

>>29866295
Play Rough Mimikyu is indeed horrible. My team was slow all around so both it and Haunter always outsped. I actually whited out my first attempt, and only won the second because hypnosis missed.
I think the only totems that were truly easy were the Raticate and Salazzle

>>29875703
Eviolite is found quite early. I forgot the exact town but it's easy to get.

>>29868064
Fairy Trial Captain was too lazy to make a trial, and you already beat the kahuna, so she just hands you the z-crystal.
You end up fighting an ancient dragon trial instead.

>>29865993
>fight Anabel
>Alakazam fucks my shit up
>look for Type Null, Faba wants rematch, Psychic everywhere
>try to go to Battle Tree, Dexio stops me, Mega Alakazam murders my soul
>reach Battle Tree, Blue challenges me and sends out Alakazam
S T O P

>>29865870
>challenging
Annoying as fucking hell ≠ challenging, OP.

They made wild Pokemon literally the worst fucking thing in the games now. Summoning reinforcements should be illegal. It's a shit gimmick just for shiny-hunting faglords.

>>29865993
I took out most of his team fine.
But then that Alakazam. It ripped through 4/6 of my team before I was finally able to tank a hit and land a physical Z-Move.

>>29865870
>losing to a totem mon
A single inferno overdrive from my Salandit one shot that thing.

Is Ribombee ok or dogshit trash tier?

>>29875786
You can cap EVs with Pokerus + Power items with a chain of 7

>>29871546
You have a fairy totem, it's mimikyu

>>29875842
It's pretty good. It's already the fastest gen 7 Pokémon, but if you use Quiver Dance, it's a killing machine.

>>29875813
>Being overleveled
Mine did half of its health. Then it healed with Synthesis and Trumbeak finished Salandit.

>>29872331
Almost every trainer with pokemon higher than lv 10 pokemon has the team with 3 iv at 31, 3 iv at 15, neutral nature and two maxed EV stats

>>29875896
Sounds like your Salandit has shit stats m8

What emulator are people even using to play this?

>want to do a nuzlocke
>remember that the game is actually kinda hard
>remember that unskippable cutscenes

>>29875978
People are either using their modded 3DS (which works flawlessly) or Citra (which can crash if you look at it the wrong way).