/nzg/ Nuzlocke General

Previously on /nzg/ >>32922561

>>32932230
I think the board was spammed again but not quite sure since I wasn't here

>>32932259
It might have, I don't know. We'll just keep going. This weekend is my first weekend off and I binge drinking with friends and playing Pokemon, so I'll try to keep it alive. No more of this squeezing in 10 mins of gameplay during my break shit.

>>32932230
>>32932259
>>32932279
I've been missing the action itself, but I saw the aftermath this morning at least. From what I can gather, someone's been raiding /vp/ at about 1:00 PST, 4:00 EST the past couple nights, pushing every thread into Archive by posting lots of furry porn, or something of the sort.

>>32932785
I only witnessed it the first time it happened but I guess it's happening daily (for now)

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I saw some salazzle porn last nite, i did not know it was being posted on every thread.

Well update, pekepik die in a duo battle against raising star duo rufflet and vullaby in route 5

>both hit him with fury attack
>Hit 9 times!

it was my best bro so far well this is the team after Lana's trial.

I keep checking the thread before bed and it's fine, wake up and it's gone. Don't know what's up with it lately.

Anyways, haven't played my SoulSilver yet since I just got Crash Remastered and have been playing that. Plan on playing some tonight though.

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Guy from last night bitching about critical hits, managed to finally get a Pidgey to a decent enough place where it wasn't OHKO'd by a level 5 crit Tackle. I've been doing a Nuzlocke variant where I ditch starter after first catch, and then flip a coin to see if I can catch anything on a new route, because I always end up with a ton of shit in the box anyway that ends up too weak to use by the time a slot opens up. Nothing's died so far but I've only had 2 catches because I got tails in Viridian Forest and Route 2, but just beat Brock so we'll see if I get lucky in Mt. Moon.

>>32933570
I had the same kind of idea, but instead of flipping for captures, I'd flip whether a death countes or not

>>32933581
Man, I really should have done that for any death by crit, but I don't want to "cheat". I've mainly just been trying to find a way to play that gives me more diversity than what I'd normally use given free choice, which is why I ditched starter.

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Is there anywhere where you can catch non-water types past Lilycove? There's Victory Road, Cave of Origin, Shoal Cave (I want a Spheal), and Sky Pillar... am I missing anything?

>>32933570
The thing about nuzlocking is if you're at low health against a level 5 Pidgey and you know a crit's gonna kill you there's no shame in running away. Playing defensively can be really nice. Also, that's an interesting way to play - I had a weird gimmick once where I'd only evolve something/catch the first thing I find after beating a gym leader. Gymlocke? Might try that again sometime.

>>32933694
Yeah I run a lot and grind more than I should, it was really just doing battles against like level 3 Pidgeys that could kill me in 2 shots if the second one crit. 2 runs in a row I'd Tackle, then they'd Tackle, then I'd Tackle but miss, and then they'd Tackle, crit, and I'd be dead. Only way around that would be to run as soon as I get hit once, but then grinding early would be an even bigger bitch.

>>32933570
Update: Caught Vladimir the Zubat in Mt.Moon, Route 3 was a Mankey and I'm not doing dupes clause or anything so treated it as losing the flip.

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just revived tyrunt at ambrette town, thinking about replacing someone with him but I can't decide. thoughts?

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>>32933935
ditch ivysaur. no starters allowed.

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AND I wiped to Rival on Nugget Bridge. Got down to his final Pokemon (Charmander) doing roughly 20HP of damage on all 3 of my level 17 Pokemon. Burns Mankey, switch to Pidgey, Super Potion to full health and get hit by a crit, KO'd. Switch to Zubat, Potion, get hit with Crit Ember TWICE IN A ROW, then switch to Mankey and wipe because no Burn Heal and run was dead as soon as 2/3rds of the team went down.

>>32933935
Kinda agree with >>32933994. Gift Pokemon are just so much better than anything you'd reasonably get in the wild it kinda cheapens it, but do what you want because the overall goal is to have fun.

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Time for my daily update.

Damn Pursuiting Raticates cost me my Staryu, but my Bruxish has been doing a good job serving as replacement. Totem Vikavolt was a joke, Totem Mimikyu was a bit tricky, Guzma was laughable, and I greatly overestimated Nanu. With Ula'ula Island now completely cleared, I head off to Aether Paradise to begin the final segment of Act 2.

Current Level Cap: 48, until I defeat Hapu on Poni Island. I will be keeping the Exp. Share on throughout Aether Paradise, in order to catch up to the massive level jump on Poni.

On a final note: holy fuck Alola has a lot of encounters. Whoever was saying to split Route 1 into 3 parts must not have ever gotten very far in an Alola Nuzlocke. I'm glad I decided against Pinwheel Clause. Part of me wants more Pokémon to die just to balance out the layout.

>>32932230
sauce?

>>32934196
I like the Yu-Gi-Oh! themed names. Might steal the idea the next time I do a Nuzlocke.

Alright, luck's not on my side today. Let's see if I can beat Brock with just this Rattata.

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>Get an Onix in Oreburgh Mine.
>Pretty happy with that.
>Getting it low takes fucking ages and my entire party is at risk from Screech+Bind shenanigans, stopping me switching for small periods.
>Takes ALL my balls, the very last one catches it.
>Modest Nature.

>>32934578
yikes
>>32934628
I hope it brings you victories

>>32934628
At least you caught it?

>>32934649
>Attack down on something with only 45 base attack.
The only victories it's bringing are gonna be off the back of a sacrificial switch in.

>>32934689
Yeah, but it's a flat 10%. You could still find niche uses for it like Toxic and IIRC it gets Dragon Breath or something?

Managed to beat Brock with the Rattata. Granted, it was Level 17, but I wanted it to have over 40 HP for a 2 Potion cushion since it only knows normal moves against 2 Rock types. Wasn't as bad as I thought probably overleveled but eh, it'll balance out when I catch something else.

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Grinding in preparation for the third gym; I've gonna really lucky with red pokemon thus far. I think getting everyone into the early 30's should be good enough.

Route 3 was a bust, Mt. Moon yielded Haniwa the Geodude, Beat Rival and Nugget Bridge and Bubonic Vermin evolved into Raticate, encounter for Route 24 was an Abra and I managed to luck out with first Pokeball at full health so now I have Maha Vailo the Abra. Going to be a bitch to evolve into Kadabra but well worth it.

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>>32935017
Route 4 was also a bust, update

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Tate & Liza, the twins of hell are up next.
Luckily, I have a secret weapon.

>>32934628
Hey, a lot of people would love to have an Onix. Nobody would blame you for evolving it either.

>>32934834
Nice! I would've tried to evolve it before Brock, desu.

>>32934969
>boxing Solrock
you don't know what you're missing out on

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Good to see the thread alive
leafgren eezy peezy
starmie too OP

onwards to gen4 at least! blind territory for me!

>>32934969

Why do you have four Fire types on your team, yet you've boxed Sandile and Solrock?

>>32935317
Eh, I didn't want to overlevel too hard, just enough so that I felt I had a fighting chance. It was actually piss easy between Tail Whips, Hyper Fangs and Potions. Geodude was honestly harder than Onix because Defense Curl, but I 2 shot both with Hyper Fang. Raticate also solo'd Misty, but that Starmie was a close call on crit Water Pulse. Surge was a pushover as per usual because of Geodude and I caught a Diglett in Diglett's cave for good measure. I'll post updated team when I hit Dark Cave.

>>32935317
>>32935339
The team i posted was what I had last night, before I started grinding. Didn't mention that, oops. I'm definitely using Solrock for the gym; as for Sandile, it's weak to fighting so why the hell would I use it? I'm still leveling it though, because Krookodile is badass.

>>32935333
How'd you evolve Kadabra?

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>>32935356
I guess I'd be more scared of Onix spamming Rock Tomb than anything. If AI is dumb and uses Tackle a lot or whatever then yeah, it shouldn't be too bad.

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>>32935401
It did a bit, but I grinded to 41 HP because I figured it'd probably do <20 damage and I could have a 2 Potion Window, I also brought like 10 Potions to the fight, but only ended up using like 2 or 3. I just spammed Tail Whip until it was -6 and then 2 Hyper Fangs killed it.

>>32935356
Here's the updated team, I had a Diglett named Mine Mole but it got 1 shot by a Hiker's Geodude's magnitude. Not too mad because I'm not boxing anything so my team was full and it was a bit redundant, also Maha Valio covers my wet tissue defenses mon. Saggi is also a bit redundant but eh, Hypnosis is enough to warrant keeping it around, and it'd be stupid to pass up a Psychic type in a Gen 1 Nuzlocke. Got tails on Route 10 and Dark Cave, so no new mons until Lavender Town.

>>32935394
prepared all the roms up to BW2 on the randomizer to remove trade evos. pointless stuff and i'm only using each pokemon once anyway.

Wasn't there a link in the OP once that had useful shit like a million different sprites and stuff?

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Kahuna Olivia went down easily, only her Lycanroc gave me a bit of trouble.

Sadly when going to the resort to capture/train Tentacool bit the dust when a WishiWashi used Take Down. I replaced him with Clubba the Marowak.

Time for Aether Foundation

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Wailord did exactly what I needed her to do.
That being said, if I looked up their teams beforehand I would've known Lunatone is walled by Shedinja and might've brought it along.

I also got lucky with a few crits/flinches. I have no regrets.

>>32935535
>Pokemon Nuzlocke images
http://www.mediafire.com/?sxu318m9an5ulbm
>Pokemon Bank Sprites
http://www.mediafire.com/?ueadxvt1f52m0md
Additional Templates
http://www.mediafire.com/?vmfck3jdowgn472

from an old thread. hopefully these are still up.

So if I have a Mudsdale out, and Ya Boi sends out his Masquerain, I'm justified in expecting a Hydro Pump, yes? And switching to Bruxish to take the Hydro Pump? It's perfectly understandable to not expect a Bug Buzz that kills my Bruxish?

>>32935764
I'm pretty sure there's a Psychic AI mechanic that started in at least Gen 6 that predicts switches. I remember playing Rutile Ruby and Roxanne would always switch into a Storm Drain Lileep if you attempted a Water type attack, so I'm guessing the capability is at least in the game. I'm sorry for your loss though.

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>last encounter of White Greylocke
>Durant, as guaranteed
>Timid and Swarm

If it had least had Hustle I could have used it to spam boosted Aerial Aces at Marshal. But no, it had to have Swarm.

>>32935764
It's Psychic AI bullshit. Harder trainers will "predict" switches (IE read your move). When playing SET, your best switches against these types of trainers are usually Pokemon that can just tank any of the attacks even if all they can do is wittle. The worst thing is the AI isn't even consistent in making the best possible moves because Lusamine can go full retard in both her fights for no reason.

But also don't underestimate the Masquerain. It got buffed just as hard as Dugtrio in terms of damage output, people just forget because it doesn't have Arena Trap.

>>32934269
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>>32935333
And here in pretty chart form (for my pretty trips)

Diving into Diamond after dinner, any tips for gen 04? Going almost completely blind here. Played Diamond or Pearl for a bit on my cousins DS way back but i don't remember getting any close to beating and i remember nothing about the game. I know Platinum is notoriously difficult to nuzlocke but gotta deal with D/P first

>>32933570
>other people name their mankeys donut
You do it because of the rice balls in the mankey episode too?

>>32936124
>not naming it HUNG for when it evolves into primeape

he mastered iron tail without having a tail do you know what that means?

>>32936124
Yep, that's always the first thing that comes to mind.

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Second Gym compreto.
Wormy the Beautifly solo'd the entire gym with a gorillion gusts and a Quiet nature. I feel like this gym got nerfed hard from classic R/S/E. Then again it's been years since I played Ruby so what do I know.

Are there any good nuzlocke lets plays?

>>32934969
Update: Grinding is done and the team is ready to take on the gym. The team for Korrina is Braixen, Wormadam, Solrock, Flareon, Pansear, and Charmeleon. I should be fine with the amount of psychic damage I have.

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Holy fuck, I've never been so mad at this game. It's obvious that there's nothing but Wingull/Tentacool through Surfing but I had no idea it was this fucking bad for fishing too. Every goddamn route it's either fucking Wailmer with its cheeky-ass fucking grin with the occasional chance of a Sharpedo or Wailord. This wouldn't be so bad if HALF OF THE FUCKING GAME wasn't water. Holy fuck, Water's the most common type in the fucking game and they really only have 3-5 separate lines through surfing AND fishing? Are you fucking kidding me? And they have shit like Staryu ONLY in Lilycove and Horsea on the fast-water routes with barely any fishing space? What is this godawful game design? Whose decision was this? Dupefags, I guess this must be pretty great for you, enjoy your guaranteed Staryu/Horsea/whatever.

Please tell me it gets better in OR/AS.

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>>32935459
Update again, haven't beaten Erika yet, but I've gotten the Silph Scope and Pokeflute. Everyone I cared about died though.

Haniwa the Geodude. RIP Lv24 from Hiker's Magnitude 10 Geodude
Saggi the Drowzee. RIP Lv22 from Rocket's Kofing's Selfdestruct
Venom Boa RIP Lv21 from Biker's Grimer's Critical Hit Sludge (Fuck Minimize BTW)
And my first catch Bubonic V RIP Lv28 From Critical Hit Sludge, living with 5HP only to be Poisoned then immediately die at the end of the turn.

Maha Valio is still alive miraculously, and now I have Rescue Cat the Persian, F Cerebrus the Growlithe, and Birdface the Fearow, all at level 30. Bummed I got Tails on the Tower though, really wanted a Haunter but oh well. Here's hoping Cycling Road is more forgiving.

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>>32936323
It doesn't.

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>>32936215
Update: Route 110 mon is lightning rod Mild Electrike.

I have found myself a most excellent glass cannon. Now to make sure I don't fuck up and get it killed before it realizes it's potential.

Hope I get another elec pokemon to make her unstoppable in team battles,

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>>32936323
It doesn't. Gamefreak has never managed to actually make unique water routes that don't devolve into the same 3 Pokemon the entire game.

The more water Routes a game forces you through, the harder it is to ignore. It's obnoxious in RSE because the entire end game is water routes. It wasn't as bad in DPPT because you only need to go through two water routes midway and at the end of the game.
BW is probably the only mainline series where you ACTIVELY had to go on Water Routes or even find water Routes.
XY tried as well but you basically had inland water Pokemon and ocean water Pokemon. It needed more depth.
SM returned to the fucking "hey what if we have 2 set water types on almost every route and then 1 special one"

Least to Most Obnoxious Water Routes in Pokemon

Kalos > Unova > Sinnoh > POWER GAP > Kanto = Johto > Alola > Hoenn

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Doing a run for the first time in ages.
Roarks first attack was a crit headbutt on Bluduck that forced me to sacrifice Sinnoh PD, otherwise a nice and easy first gym.

>>32934269
>>32936056
bump

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>>32934969
>>32936296
Catch update. Now onto the grass gym.

>>32935784
>>32935802
Psychic AI just hit a new low. Lusamine's Bewear used Take Down while I had my Eviolite Magneton out and was switching to my Ribombee. Crit, Ribombee dies.

This run is very quickly starting to piss me off.

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>>32936106
please respond

i know nothing and all the starters look dumb

what is this game

>>32937100
Turtwig : Tanky, gets Earthquake in the 30s, but will die to a single ice attack

Chimchar : Fast Attacker that can work in either stat, light on defense. If you're not playing Platinum this is your only choice besides Ponyta for a fire type.

Piplup, middle of the road until evolution in which it gets a tanky duo type and a decent SPATK

Starly : The single most useful regional bird ingame.

Bidoof. DO NOT SEND INTO BATTLE. This thing is your pocket knife to progress through the HM hell that is Sinnoh.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE TEAM GALACTIC ADMINS

Also you will encounter a Pokemon known as Bronzor and later Bronzong.
You will learn to DESPISE them.

>>32937132
so the bird is actually useful, get the ugly monkey and dont underestimate evil leaders
got it

>Also you will encounter a Pokemon known as Bronzor and later Bronzong. You will learn to DESPISE them.

w-why
selfdestruct happy?

>>32937230
The Bird gets Intimate upon evolving the first time. The 3rd form has two highly damaging moves.

Bronzor is a Steel/Psychic type.
It has TWO weaknesses. Fire and Ground.

It's ability will either nullify it's Fire Weakness or make it immune to Ground attacks. It is tanky as fuck gets Confuse Ray and the ability to boost it's Defense.

>>32934269
>>32936056
>>32936720
bump, pls give sauce

>>32937364
>assuming I keep track of where I got all my reaction pics

Fuck off. Just save the image for yourself just like everyone does

I had totally forgotten about ending my Cuck Emerald Nuzlocke after that spam storm the other day, just had gotten all 4 of my remaining pokes to level 100, Quagsire, Butterfree, Steelix, and Garchomp
time to take on the E4 with only 4 pokemon

>>32937553
>sucker punched twice while using quiver dance
>butterfree died
>sucker punch isnt supposed to be able to hit when it isnt an offensive move
you know what, i'm just gonna let this end here if it's going to actually cheat to beat me

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e4 time is quickly approaching
just need to grab my victory road catch and my final team will probably be determined (it'll probably have shedinja on it)

>>32937553
good luck my man

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>>32936356
Last update for tonight, Erika was piss easy, I didn't get anything on Cycling Road, willingly skipped the Safari Zone, but I did get a Doduo west of Fuchsia and a Pidgeotto east of Fuchsia. The Pidgeotto was very short lived because of a Hypno in Koga's gym. Got Surf and Fly, needed a water type, skipped Route 25 because I never knew it was separate from Route 24. Saw a Poliwhirl fishing with Super Rod but OHKO'd it with a crit Cut. Then fished south of Fuchsia for a severely underleveled Horsea that's my surfer and hopefully soon to be designated Water type. Tackling Silph tomorrow, here's the team as of now.

>>32936631
I remember you. I like your templates.

Good luck anon

>>32938083
Cheers. The pics are nothing special, anything beyond MSPaint is too much effort for a lazyboi like me. I always start getting low on space for the dead section in Platinum runs. Never tried a box section before either, so that'll probably get clogged soon.
I'll update at the end of each gym or if there's some kind of huge disaster.

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>bitch and moan about getting nothing but dupes and shitty water routes near the end of the game
>enter victory road
>blessed with this
>belly drums to be easier to catch instead of whirlwinding

wtf i love emerald now

also i love those trainers with the slaking at the end of victory road

we grind/fight the E4 tomorrow!

Strange Nuzlock question? While plumbing the Glittering Cave in X, used Rock Smash and got an Old Amber before going on to the scientist who gave me the sail fossil (because I want to punish myself with the worst defensive type combination in the game).

So, question, since I got the old Amber first, do I have to revive the Aerodactyl, or can I actually chose which fossil I revive?

>>32937410 bumping >>32934269
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>>32937364
c'mon, I know you know where you got it
tell me alreadyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Okay, going to do a Nuzlocke of Nova Sun, no idea if the emulator works well or not but why not

Swordbro_Streams on twitch

standard set of rules
Pikipek clause because FUCK that bird and everything it represents
Dupes clause: 3 reattempts in the area
not sure how to divide up the areas too well so gonna just go with when it says im somewhere different

>>32938338
Just reverse image search jesus christ. With how annoying you are, I wouldn't be surprised if you were an underage.

Do repels ignore AI companions?
If I used a repel while Cheryl was with me in Platinum, would it remove all encounters regardless of my own front party members level?

>>32938268
I'd say revive what you want. It's like the choice of a giftmon in starters

>>32938152
Yeah, just simplistic which is easy to read and straightforward.
I've always wanted to play Platinum, but I don't think my laptop can handle it.

Looking forward to the updates!

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>several means on getting type advantage over Clay's pokemon
>still suffer a casualty due to crits
>Excadrill got beat by Crobat of all things because Confuse Ray RNG worked out in my favor for all 4 turns
This whole run, even outside of the scope of survivors making it into the next game is the weirdest shit I've ever seen in terms of RNG.

>>32938451 bumping >>32934269
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>>32938338
I already tried that, there's 0 results
Until you tell me, I'm gonna keep bumping my request on this half-dead shitty excuse for a thread
Trust me, my autism is genuine

>>32938505
>Underestimating Excadrill

There's a reason you haven't been allowed to get one in game since BW2.

So, my only experiences with Nuzlockes so far have been shit, but for reasons that were purely RNG (Emerald - kept getting Zigzagoons/Linoones; White 2 - died early on to an unlucky train of crits). What's enjoyable about Nuzlockes for you guys?

>>32938374
ended out the stream so gonna keep up with screencaps

>>32938736
Imposed challenges. Learning to like Pokemon you use to hate. Adapting to not having your favorites I mean, I'd never have used a Koffing in Crystal, a Sigilyph in BW or a Grimer in SM if not for the Nuzlocke rule.

>>32938498
It's a pokemon game anon. A phone could run it.

>>32938932
DS emulators don't always run all that well on computers, especially low-end ones.
Funnily enough, android phones do run DS games better most of the time.

>>32937132

What about for Platinum? i am about to start my first nuzlocke for it and heard there were changes.

>>32938966
literally how i can never get it to work

>>32939000
There's a couple more options for fire types, but a grand total of 4, including your starter and if you choose to evolve an eevee into flareon.
The rest is about the same. I'd disagree on the Bidoof front, when it evolves, it can be kinda decent, but you'll want to teach all your HMs to it still.

>>32938907
>hating any of those
horrid taste bro

>>32939057
it's a grand total of 5 actually. tied with emerald unless you count castform

>>32939082
Oh, right, it's 4 outside of Flareon. Two were added in Pl, ones that in D/P weren't available before the E4, if I recall.
At least in Emerald, you don't much want fire types, and they're easy to find.

>>32938907
I mean, even with Nuzlocke, I still wouldn't end up with my least favorite line outside of randomizers.

What games are good to Nuzlocke?

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Posting an update;
I got really lucky and got the 5% poliwag encounter while fishing on route 35.
I lost Slowhoe to a crit tackle from a rattata while training her :(
Im pretty worried about Whitney, I dont really have anything to fight her. I could trade my drowzee for a machop for that fight, but then i would have used goldenrod's pokemon and I wouldnt be able to use the Eevee you get later when you back track

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>>32938548
need sauce pls

>>32939211
use geodude. It blocks whitney

>>32938845
Should I consider the beach area near the pokemon lab and the school as different areas? it's all route 1 I think but that seems excessive

Nuzlocking white for the first time
What level should I be for the first gym?

>>32939458

35

>>32939463
You're joking right
Right?

>>32939469
no

>>32939353
treat them as different areas so you can have a better early variety

>>32939458
You either have grind out to your evolution or use the shitty gift monkey they give you in the Dream Yard.

BW/BW2 have the most unforgiving openings in Pokemon where if you're not doing everything right it's easy to wipe.

>>32934196
>Part of me wants more Pokémon to die just to balance out the layout.
>Part of me wants more Pokémon to die just to balance out the layout.
>Part of me wants more Pokémon to die just to balance out the layout.
>Part of me wants more Pokémon to die just to balance out the layout.
>Part of me wants more Pokémon to die just to balance out the layout.

First, my Bruxish to Guzma's Masquerain
Then my Ribombee to Lusamine's Bewear
Now my Aerodactyl to a non-Alolan Sandshrew that came out with Gyro Ball

I regret everything.

>>32939567
Using the shitty monkey was the plan

>>32939622
Then kill the Dog with your starter and let the Shitty Monkey kill their shitty Monkey

DON'T put a berry on your Starter when it fights the dog. Otherwise you're making shit harder for you

>>32939630
What level should I be for this? Because I'm at 12 and already contemplating suicide

>>32939646
You're fine. Just don't stop attacking it with your STAB no matter what and prey for no crit. It doesn't have a stab but it CAN flinch you. In which case healing with positions is better if you're doing that because PICKUP gives it a berry for every berry you use

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>>32939545
alright, have my team so far, just grabbed a Rotom on the beach section of R1

Best game to do a MegaMan locke?

>>32939680
a wut

>>32939712
megaman locke, when you are forced to start with a normal type and can't use other types unless you beat the corresponding gym leader. If there is a normal type gym leader, you can choose whichever other types there are, supposing there isn't any gym leaders of said type. Standard nuzlocke rules otherwise.

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I'm the guy who started the X nuzlocke in the other thread.

Fucking RIP my team. I was doing fine but then went down to the garden in front of the chateu and fought the double battle against the two furfrow or whatever they're called and they absolutely fucked my squad. I barely made it out with Beatrice and now i'm down to two mons (i boxed the gen 1 starter).

As of now it's just Beatrice and Birberus the doduo, hopefully I can catch something good in the death garden where I lost basically my entire team. Fuck those dogs, I want my pigeotto and azurill back.

So for monotype Nuzlockes, do you just hack your starter to be that type, and if you do:

A) How do you determine a "fair" starter? I presume no 1-stages, no pseudos?
B) What tool do you use?

What's everyone's opinion of catching HM slaves outside of nuzlocke rules?

>>32939846
One good aspect of Sun and Moon is ride Pokemon, and makes me happy I don't have to waste a slot in my party for Strength or Rock Smash, so they're bad if I have to use them
Try to avoid them

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>Nothing I have can learn Cut aside from my starter.
>Need cut to progress.
>Have a 10% chance to catch something that can learn cut from a route I skipped a while back in the run.
>Can't decide if I should go for that or just use a dead mon as a HM slave to progress OR just take the hit and lump my starter with Cut for half the game.

>Gurdurr takes two High Jump Kicks from Scrafty, surviving one which was a crit with 7HP left
>random Gigalith used Earthquake against Excadrill, but Excadrill survives with like 40HP

Victory Road was scary, close calls all the time, but nobody died at least. All that's left is E4 grindan.

>>32939810
My brother in X nuzlock... I am so sorry for your loss... Beware the black belt on route 8 next, he has a level 20, and it crits frequently.
I only survived the furfrou engagement with three and through the virtue of having taught Return to most of my Pokemon.

Planning on starting a mono-Steel Nuzlocke. Which gen would be best for it, and should I go Magnemite or Aron as my starter?

>>32939821
>You don't have to hack, a bank transfer works fine for the last three games.
>If you're monotyping an earlier game, okay, some hacking required, or you can just use the earliest available Monday of that type.
>A "fair" starter should be a 2/3-stage with a BST that starts *near* 300 and ends on or near 525. So, Zubat is a great "fair" starter for poison or flying monotype!

>>32940731
Alright, that's what I thought. Thanks!

>>32939772

I did a similar run in Blue. Basically could only use Normal and Flying initially, no Pokemon of any other type, until I unlocked the types at certain points. Mostly gyms, but like Bug at the end of Viridian Forest or Ice after clearing Seafoam Islands. It did lock me into Pidgey, Rattata, and then Butterfree once I beat Viridian Forest for a long ass time though - beating Brock didn't help because every Rock type that isn't late is Ground, and it was Giovanni that unlocked Ground. It also locked me out of the many Poison types until after Koga. Pretty interesting run, all things considered.

Which game would be best for a first nuzlocke? FRLG, HGSS, Emerald, or Pt?

>>32940971
Probably FRLG or Emerald. HGSS might be alright, I'm not sure. Pt will fuck your shit sideways.

>>32940971
FRLG or Emerald. HGSS can get really grindy once you get. Don't ever start with Platinum. nuzlocking Platnium is honestly pretty frustrating.

>>32941016
get to clair* fuck me staying up at 5AM

>>32940989
>>32941016
Alright. Any basic suggestions that aren't immediately apparent?

>>32941033
It can be easy to fall into the habit of using the speedup button during battles, especially when grinding. I won't say don't use it, but be careful with it, it leads to carelessness and that can lose you team members.

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Let's do this

I'm at Route 3, beat Cheren but haven't gone in the cave yet.

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>>32936631
Figured I'd wait to update this till I beat Jupiter, because that's always a shitshow.
As predicted, I lost a team member there. Fuck that fight.
Team feels decent though. Will probably be able to fill that gap on Route 206 or Wayward Cave.
I have high hopes for my boi Emil in particular. Timid Gastly in-game is something to be treasured.

>>32941144
Sauce on those icons?

>>32941181
>>32935710

>>32941033
once you get to the radio tower, if any rockets send out koffings, always send out something (rock, steel, ghost) that can resist selfdestruct/explosion. Don't try to risk by using any others unless you're confident enough that it can One shot the koffings.

>>32941139
Remember if you want one of Gen 5's most broken Pokemon buy some Repels for that cave and wait for a dustcloud

How do I speed up the speed up button on DeSmuMe? It runs smoothly, but when I use speed up, it isn't that much faster

>>32942241
Or if there is a better DS emulator, I'm all ears

>>32940306
Just catch something that can learn it and use it then release it

>>32938564
Excadrill gave me the least amount of problems, and I used one in my very first playthrough of B/W, I know how good that fucker is.

>>32939617
Dude, I do not have the source. Somebody at some point just made this. It's not from anything. Fuck off.

>>32940971
If you're still looking for an answer, FRLG doesn't have a very fun start, so if you feel like that would turn you away, do Emerald. Emerald has some harder fights closer to the end, while the difficulty in FRLG tapers off after Sabrina.

Hope that helps, if you haven't started yet.

>>32941181
Ask again at about 11PM, I have all of them saves, I think they have them through gen5.

>>32942241
I don't have the details because I'm not at my desktop, but you actually have to assign a hotkey to it. I'd suggest messing with the menu for a while to find it.

>>32942727
>assign a hotkey to it
Yes I've already done that.
I'm trying to figure out if I can make the speed up any faster. In the overworld speeding up is slow, but in battles it is super quick

Is there a way to fix this?

Are nuzlockes really as awesome as people make them out to be?

Will I really discover a need, deep bond to my pokemon or is it just make-belief?

I'm seriously curious, pls enlighten me.

>>32942859
discover a new, deep*

>>32942859
If you're looking for the pain of bonds shattered by death run a Nuzlocke of SuMo. Or wait until Ultra Su/Mo and run it blind for added emotional suffering.

Otherwise it's just a good way to add challenge and learn to use pokemon you wouldn't touch otherwise.

>>32942896
Is it traumatic? I don't want to get fucking PTSD.

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>>32942924
If your pokemon like you enough they can auto endure randomly "because they don't want you to be sad"
They also get higher crit rate, if they're close to death there's flavor text like "Pikachu looks like it's in pain" and sometimes They'll look back at you before they faint

I had to SD my drifblim who was with me since the beginning on the champion fight and he did this. Broke my fucking heart.

>>32942859
As long as you play by the rules then yes

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>>32943012
>spoiler
not that anon but i've never seen this happen before and i don't think i want to

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plan to take this beautiful crew to the e4
grindan begins now

>>32942859
I like it because it forces me to play more carefully. That "bond with your pokemon" thing is usually a load of crap because you're more likely to only use common pokemon that you've already used before. I was lucky to find a Solrock which I friggin' love now. Despite being weak to most of the E4, I'm still bringing it because it fucks Drake up.

I've also come to respect interesting/unexpected sets from the game but shit like Night Slash spam or Selfdestruct are rage-inducing. There's the obvious solution of overgrinding your team so they don't even die to crits but you should aim to have a pretty good idea of what level your pokemon should be to have a fairly "even" fight (think of gym leaders as checkpoints). This makes playing a new game blind a little trickier sometimes but I think it's a lot more fun.

Also, romhacks are the devil. They're where the "non-stop grinding" mentality comes from.

CLAY'S ONIX HAS FUCKING STURDY + EXPLOSION?

FUCKING CHRIST. It nearly gave me a heart attack that my Vaporeon was going to bite it.

>>32943012

That only happens if you abuse refresh like a chump.
And if you use refresh get the fuck out of nuzgen.

>>32943089
Can't you beat all games just with the starter though? There is no rule which forces use to use multiple pokemon. The more pokemon you use the harder the game gets.

>>32943125
It was my first run so I didn't realize it would have that much effect.

Also I think affection increases passively from battle too, could be wrong on that though.

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Haven't played Gen 4 since it was released so a lot of this will be a refresher. Funnily, Gen 4 is my favorite gen.

I think I'm doing good. Forgot about the Rival battle on Route 203.

>>32943151
You can. It's just safer to have more Pokemon.
I usually roll with 4, maybe five Pokemon.

>>32943151
I don't think it's as feasible in the gen 5 games though

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>>32943151
The #1 goal of a nuzlocke for me is to have fun. If trying to steamroll the game with your starter is fun to you, go ahead.

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RITE. I fucked up my HeartGold blind nuzlocke against the 5th gym on a great run.

Should I run a:
Blind nuzlocke HG (Well, the rest is still blind)
Blind nuzlocke White 2 (Seen the first three gyms)
Regular nuzlocke Pearl (It's been feckin ages so nearly blind)

>>32943456
I vote pearl/hg

>>32943470
That's a good start.
I've started a bunch of nuzlockes for like two gyms and gotten bored because I'm either being too lax because I tend to play tired or high LMAO xDD so I give myself leeway I don't need
Doing it with a stencil and posting here made me incredibly strict on my brief HG run so I'm happy to do whatever would be least normal/boring for the thread

>>32943490
Yea you gotta have the motivation to do it. I sometimes feel like dropping the game but then remember I'm doing this because I'm not doing anything else at the moment. Plus I really enjoy using pokemon I've never used before

>>32943456
White 2. Second best set of games next to RSE in my humble opinion, and excellent Pokémon variety for Nuzlocking.

>>32943598
Yea I really want a damn Ampharos because I've never used one but had a Flaaffy on HG
>>32943600
Well that's one for everything really.

>>32943617
Ampharos is one of favorites so I've used it a few times already on normal plays, very good
Also doing nuzlocke on rom hacks is always another option if you wanna try something new

>>32943656
Never really enjoyed emulated Pokemon for some reason. Got almost everything on cartidge anyway

>>32943185
Fuck I lost to Roark

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currently doing an x nuzlocke, got the 2nd badge, thinking about the future gyms and e4 to see who I need to bring along. any advice?

>>32942764
Not that I know of. It should go pretty fast, just not nearly as fast as a GBA emulator.

>>32942859
Nuzlockes aren't mind blowing, they just make you take better care of your Pokemon since they're not allowed to faint. If your Starter dies at the 7th gym, after you put several hours into training it, making sure that it never fainted, having heart attacks as a crit makes its HP get too close to 0, you'd feel something. Either A. Anger because it was your fault, you did so well with that Pokemon until that moment, or B. Anger because of RNG, you couldn't have known a crit was coming, you weren't expecting a 1HKO.

It's like that.

>>32943151
>can't you just win by playing the game in a way it wasn't intended to be played?
I mean, yeah. If you trap shoot and hit the first disk and then go home, you still hit 100% of your shots, but it's really not that impressive.

>>32943710
Randomize and start over

>>32936221
pkmnrob is pretty good

>>32940490
Thanks man, i'll keep that in mind.

>>32943735
Make sure you have a poison type for the fairy gym

>>32944028
desu. but he does use the cheats for grinding on blaze black and im pretty sure that pissed a lot of people off when some kid did the same thing so idk

>>32943735
Make sure you have a poison type for the fairy gym

>>32944236
>>32944296
Woops, double post.

>>32942656 bumping
>>32934269
>>32936056
>>32936720
>>32937364
>>32938338
>>32938548
>>32939238
>>32939617
come on, I know that's just a joke
gimmie sauce

>>32944503
why do you need sauce?

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No real reason why I haven't used a tripcode yet, but now I have one. I'm still working on training for Roxanne, and I have Sat/Sun and Tues/Wed off of work, so I'll finally get to put in some real progress.

I'm at Wellspring Cave right now in white
What are yalls opinion on waiting for shaking grass/sand?

beaten first gym in diamond

i was so scared about this because i just had the shitty fire monkey and a geodude and it turned out to be fucking nothing. bonks dinosaur with pursuit is your fucking ace? come the fuck on

>>32945280
If you've used Roggenrola or Woobat in your last 2 runs, go for the Drillbur. If not, take what you get. No using repels, if you hit an encounter along the way, that's your catch.

Imo

I finished my White Grey Colourlocke. Cinccino died to N's Carracosta, I had hoped Brightpowder hax would save me, but no, she got crit. Only death of the entire run. So close to deathless! But hey, I won. Escavalier and Excadrill did almost everything, but Gurdurr was useful too.

I really should have just healed Escavalier, but I didn't want Carracosta to be a stall fest. I got my wish, at the cost of Cinccino. Never mind.

>>32945391
Congrats anon

What's your next run?

>>32945457

Thanks!

Dunno yet. I'll probably take another break, I've done like 5 runs this year alone already. I did bank everything in X and Sun, and I did White 2 a month ago, so it'll probably be something in X or Sun. Maybe another Colourlocke, or another normal Nuzlocke of Sun.

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YAFRH blind Nuzlocke run, like my third one so far
Pretty excited I got a Pikachu as my first encounter in Viridian. Hoping this is the run I don't lose to those fucking Cottonees, I'm doing okay against them so far.

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Started my nuz two weeks ago, barely picked it after i lost prinplup. Current team havent fought surge yet.
Game YAFRRH

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>>32932991
Update
After volcano park the team looks like this.

>Furiosa die against bubble beam crit of a Dewpider in route 7.

Also tentecool make the salazzle fight so easy, her ability clear body is amazing i have never trained one, and roggenrola's weak armor and Iron defense is a pretty good combo.

>>32945974
You got a male Salandit didn't you?

Also remember to factor in Gigalith in your team composition since it's not going to KEEP weak armor.

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Possible runs to decide:
HeartGold with Sobek the Totodile
Black 2 with Chrona the Snivy
Pearl with Azula the (Female) Chimchar
AS with whatever
White 1 with whatever

Then just need a template
Ahhaha help me I'm indecisive

>>32946035
Black 2 if it's Challenge Mode, otherwise NO POINT. If you really book it you can get to Route 4 before Thursday ends and have a Mandibuzz

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E4 TIME

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Close calls against Sidney despite the level advantage. Hariyama dealed with Double Team/Sand Attack shenanigans nicely but Swords Dance Absol/Crawdaunt proved to be menacing I forgot Crawdaunt got Hyper Cutter too He also had some really good coverage for my team. I expect Phoebe to be easier.

>>32946049
It is not, it is blind. As is HeartGold

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>>32945974
Update
Totem Lurantis is AIDS i lost 3 members, the only one remaining of my original team is Magnit.
Gonna grind a little before Olivia, i have two grass types tho, so i think im fine.

>>32945993
Yes, are you a wizard? i lost roggenrola :( thx for the advice thou.

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>>32941139
RIP Scout the Patrat and Nathan the Tepig
Scout died to a bide and Nathan died to a critical confusion.
Nathan was my main plan for Lenora, hope I don't do too bad.

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More close calls. The E4 has surprisingly good coverage. I was hoping my team's rock weakness wouldn't be exploited as much. The good news is that Shedinja and Solrock are gonna start seeing more use. Gyarados is kinda low on Earthquake PP.

>>32946160
>critical confusion
damn, I thought you meant you crit yourself whist confused. I would be so fucking mad if that happened

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Girth was sweeping Glacia's shit and then I forgot that Explosion was a thing that Glalie did. Granted Shedinja/Solrock weren't exactly safe switches thanks to Shadow Ball but still. Hariyama did its job for the most part and probably wasn't vital but it left a pretty big hole. Newbies die first.

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Magz had, again, a million close calls including Magnet Pull + Wild Magnemites that keep calling each other. Got stuck for 15 minutes.

Lost Racket to Totem Vikavolt and motherfucking Hustle Sucker Punch. Going to miss the guy, but his glass cannon style made him too weak. Kaepora took a bug bite and was left at 4hp.

Anyways, probably going to take in Grimer for Racket. Both against Fairies and Ghosts. I think he'd be vital against Totem Mimikyu. Either that or Scrappy Miltank.

Pls send ideas.

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Okay. Turns out Salamence had Crunch which means it hit every remaining member of my team for super effective damage (yes, even Kecleon). I thought Solrock lived too but I guess it got highrolled. I was hoping some Shedinja pivot shenanigans could save Gyarados but Dragon Claw just does way too much. I guess it's my fault for expecting a +1 Strength to do half. Damn.

Time to unzip the rare candies I've been holding out on. Wallace is gonna be a bumpy ride.

>>32946284
grimer's great for any team and synergizes with yours well. if it's at least kinda close to evolving i'd take it over miltank. alternatively, komala's not a bad option either if you need a status absorber.

>>32946284
I see absolutely no problem with Grimer anon

I will say though, once Kaepora evolves, a Pallosand absolutely wrecks your entire team. Careful

>>32946284
Maybe u should get that Gyrados bro.

>>32946284
What matters the most against Totem Mimikyu is lowering it's attack. I'd say take the Gyrados, because you could literally just use Magz and the Gyrados to lower it's attack to a manageable level before dealing with the SLEEP bullshit Haunter pulls

>>32946339
Well?

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>>32946619
i'm taking a bit of a breather before wallace, gotta keep my head straight

this is doable and i hope i'm not jinxing anything by saying shedinja will be mvp

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Just finished Valley Windworks. Mars' Purugly definitely held up its reputation and almost killed Dewberry with a crit Feint Attack. Luckily we used Growl a couple times and live with 3 HP.

I'm probably going to wait until Friday to catch that Drifloon for the encounter in that area. I also used Honey on the Tree in Floaroma Meadows. Hope I get something good.

But so far no one has died, and only one encounter got away (Abra).

I'm kinda hoping I can encounter a Bidoof. I want an HM slave.

>>32946648
I'm at the edge of my seat anon.

Rootin' for ya

>>32932230
Alright this looks like the right thread to ask this. Is there any romhack for Gen 1/2/3 that remove HM Mules and make TM infinite like in later gens?

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Does this idea sound interesting to anyone?

>>32946792
Solely hacks? Or fangames?

>>32946815
A lot of rules to keep in mind, but it actually does sound very interesting. I'll keep it in mind for later

>>32946815
>:^D

back to lebbit

also jesus christ when the rules of your fucking nuzlocke are THAT long, sit back, take a breath and wonder about all the wrong things that are going on with your life

>>32946815
No. Sounds like a lot of shit to memorize.

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>>32946815
>making a ruleset that long just to justify himself using legendaries

No, thanks, i'm not a faggot.

>>32946862
>also jesus christ when the rules of your fucking nuzlocke are THAT long, sit back, take a breath and wonder about all the wrong things that are going on with your life

Eh, it's not as complicated as it looks. The image has an intro, repeat the normal nuzlocke rules and the qualifications for the "pieces" are listed in a way that uses a lot of space.

>>32946883
Reserving the queen slot for legendaries, pseudos, ensures that the slot would remain empty for much of the early game.

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WE DID IT BOYS

Shedinja walled Wailord and Whiscash. Crobat handled Tentacruel decently and Aerial Aced the fuck out of Double Team Ludicolo. Kecleon handled Milotic. Gyarados... was luckily walled by Shedinja too. I was willing to sack Shedinja if it had Crunch or something and possibly try to Toxic + Haze stall with Crobat. Wallace's AI was also surprisingly keen on not switching out from Shedinja and doing weird stuff like Amnesia with Whiscash when I was scouting with switches which helped.

>>32946935
i hope you're not trying to use that as justification to"you don't get a legendary for the first four gyms, it's totally balanced !!!!"

>>32946853
Anything really.

>>32946943
well done, anon! Emerald is no joke unless you cheese the champion with Shedinja. Grats regardless.

>>32946943
>Kecleon handled Milotic
may i ask how? kecleon stats are so.... shitty. can't imagine it beating something as bulky as milotic specially without super effective STABs

congrats on the win anyway

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The team! Bottom three died along the way. Rest in peace, my friends. Couldnt've done it without you.

>>32946955
Shedinja is delicious cheese.
If it makes you feel any better Drake pushed my shit in.

>>32946988
Kecleon has naturally high SpDef and the AI wasn't smart enough to alternate between Surf/Ice Beam so Kecleon was effectively a water type.

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>Considering using Cranidos during Plat.
>Realise it learns no good moves for a billion years.
>Crazy glass-cannon, TMs would probably be wasted on it.

The newer games may have a few issues, but infinite TMs were a godsend.

>>32947052
>The newer games may have a few issues, but infinite TMs were a godsend.
they really werent
>moves became either too shitty because TMs were unlimited or too imbalanced because you could teach one shotters to every scrub you want

TMs being usable add another layer of strategy. So cranidos is a glass cannon? Take the risk, make it survive, save your investiment. Or lol just teach him one of those infinite TMs and if he dies who cares capture another one somewhere and teach it again lmao no sweat.

>>32936106
>still doing the autismquest
For a while I thought you quit. You are fucking dedicated my man.

>>32946935
Would allowing for a legendary disrupt the balance that badly? It seemed like the closest Pokemon equivalent to the role queens play in chess. I don't personally use legendaries during a normal play-through and I've never actually committed to a complete Nuzlocke.

What if players were not allowed to heal the legendary so it had to be used sparingly/was almost guaranteed to only be a temporary party member?

>>32947141
That's the problem, the legendary is not limited in any sense while the king has all sort of stupid arbitrary limitations.

Would make it much more sense as a challenge to limit the legendaries and give more freedom for one of the useless pawns instead of the opposite

i mean the fucking legendaries can be anything, ignore capturing rules, mega evolve, use z-moves, learn any move.... why even fucking bother playing the game after that?

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>>32947103
>Take the risk.
>It dies to some highroll crit.
>Now you can't use any other pokemon that need those TMs to be half good that entire run.

>Capture another.
It's a nuzlocke, it doesn't necessarily work like that anyway.

>>32947166
if you don't limit your number of captures/pokeball in any sense it pretty much does

some of the games have a ridiculous number of routes and places to capture new team members. FRLG alone added more than 20 spots just with islands 1, 2 and 3 and Kanto was already pretty generous with its number of routes

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Miscellaneous notes...

Crobat was such a trooper throughout the whole game. After my starter/Wingull died I grinded Zubat a lot hoping something good would come out of it - he quickly became my overleveled go-to guy. Evolved after avenging Azumarill's stupid death too. Become kind of underwhelming afterward but I'm so glad he didn't die. Something as common as Zubat really is this good.

Kecleon is wildly underrated. I think of it as Hoenn's Snorlax even though it's probably not nearly as good. Substitute/Screech are great utility.

Shedinja is delicious cheese. I didn't really use it for most of the game after dealing with Wattson because I was paranoid of random coverage moves that could fuck it up. I love gimmicks.

Mostly sad that Solrock couldn't take on Salamence like I planned. It pretty much did nothing against the E4 other than weaken Salamence a bit. It did so well mid-to-late game. I've also never used it before. Hmm, maybe I should've spammed Cosmic Power against Shelgon and hoped for no crits. Eh, it wouldnt've done much against Wallace regardless.

I think I'll do Platinum next.

>>32947052
All it really needs is Rock Slide/Tomb.
It's easy to think of Rampardos as a glass cannon but 97/60/50 really isn't the frailest thing ever. You don't really need to worry about speed, why not go bulk? Rock-types are also amazing in nuzlockes, period.

>>32947103
I agree with this. GF was careful to have stuff like Flamethrower/Thunderbolt/Ice Beam buyable so you could teach them to different stuff. Being forced to pick and choose (and risk losing it) makes nuzlockes more fun. Side-note: I miss being forced to carry around a few antidotes.

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>>32947165
In chess kings have very little ability to move or capture enemy pieces, while the queen is the most powerful piece on the board. That's why that disparity exists.

>>32946058
I've been waiting for this!

>>32946815
It sounds good, but there's just too many rules for me to be interested

>>32946943
Congrats faggot, what's next? Another run, or nuzlocke through the Battle Frontier?

>>32947115
I didn't even see >>32936106, keep this up mate, update more for me

>>32947217
any normal pokemon with no restrictions would still be "the most powerful piece" in the context of the challange. it didnt had to be a legendary

I honestly wish I had more time to post updates. I really miss being able to make images and shit, now I just post screenshots of my party. I want to be more involved than just cheering from the sidelines, for fucks sake I haven't even gotten everyone to level up more than 4 levels in the past 4 threads

Gave up on the Firered Nuzlocke. I didn't wipe but it stopped being fun, I guess it's just the severely limited selection and how the difficulty is really meh after Sabrina. I also feel like I grinded too much and that should be toned down next time to more reasonable levels.

I really wish there were a way of selectively randomizing games. Like, I'd want Route 1 to take from a pool of reasonable Pokemon, like Poliwag, Growlithe, Oddish, and shit. Not Mewtwo and Zapdos.

>>32947289
I feel you. I want to make more detailed images and actually care more about my team and such.

>>32947360
I feel like FireRed is just piss easy overall and the amount of routes means you'll have plenty of replacements if you're not running any additional rules. Trainers and even Gym Leader movesets aren't exactly all that good either compared to say Platinum or Emerald.

>>32947360
you don't ever have to grind in FRLG anyway. you made it harder on yourself

>>32947383
Yeah, I added the rule that I had to flip a coin for every new route and on tails I'd skip the capture to try to compensate, but that'd probably work better on a harder game.

>>32947393
I did have to very early on because I had to beat Brock with just a Rattata because RNG. It's just hard to find a balance between being sturdy enough to survive BS crits and not so strong that it still poses a challenge. Guess I should just suck it up and eat crits, or at least play a later game where crit rate is lower.

>Barboach dies to a Sturdy/Flail Sudowoodo
>Staryu dies to a Pursuiting Raticate
>Bruxish dies to Guzma predicting my switch
>Now Slowbro dies to Hapu's Mudsdale hitting way harder than I expected given Slowbro's high defense

I cannot keep a Water type to save my life in this run.

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General consensus is that the proposed chess-themed Nuzlocke was too complicated, so I trimmed the rules a bit. Thoughts?

Still interested in dialoging about allowing legendaries to serve as "queen", too. Is that as bad as that one anon earlier in the thread implied? Is permitting "knights" to use Z-moves excessive?

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RNJesis took mercy on me after the death of my poor Slowbro. Not that I'm gonna use this thing, but still.

>>32947431
Well the problem is, that you're not going to have that role filled until halfway through the game or maybe even more.

>>32947567
>you're not going to have that role filled until halfway through the game or maybe even more.
most of the games don't even have anything remotely challenging before midgame

you're not playing it fair and square because you didn't had your queen articuno to beat brock and erika

>>32947567
That was intended deliberately to challenge the players. And even playing a traditional nuzlocke you're going to have an incomplete party for most of the early game just because you haven't traveled through many routes.

Alright fuck it, going to do the coinlocke thing on Platinum. Going to ditch starter too so I'll throw together a infographic on it if I manage to beat Roark. In the meantime if anyone wants to suggest additional rules that make the game interesting but not set up to fail let me know.

>>32947649
>coinlocke

This coinlocke? http://www.azurilland.com/forums/pokemon/pokemon-challenges/520314-have-an-original-challenge-idea-post-it-here?comment=7

>>32947658
Nah, I'm doing a standard Nuzlocke except I'm flipping a coin for every new route. Heads I can catch the first encounter, Tails I skip it. It's meant to help reduce box clutter and help encourage "bonding" and all that shit.

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>>32947658
I should do some kind of gimmicklocke for FR/LG.

>>32947674
always wondered about trying a monomon

like, beating the entire game with an endless supply of only rattatas

>>32947674
When you catch a Pokemon it suffocates inside the Pokeball and dies and you have to release it.

>>32947674
>image
Holy shit, that's just trying, not even hard, just tedious.

>>32947689
The hardest of cores

>>32947674
I've been working with my coworker to iron out the rules for what we call an Heirlocke.

>Release any Pokémon that faint
>Catch only the first Pokémon on each route
>The above rule is put on pause once you have 6 Pokémon, and resumes once one dies
>You may never have more than 6 Pokémon at a time, and all 6 must be in your party at all times
>When a Pokémon dies, go to a route you have not gotten an encounter on and catch the first thing you see, no dupes clause, no gift clause
>Give it the same name as the dead Pokémon, but with "II" after it. If the Pokémon already had a "II," give it "III," then "IV," then "V,", etc.

The basic idea being that, as your team dies, a new Pokémon takes up its mantle. Not going over 6 Pokémon, therefor having no backups, and no dupes clause, keeps you at the game's mercy at what you use.

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>>32946160
New template, not sure if I like it
I beat N but haven't gone inside the gym yet
Any tips for the gym?

>>32947705
if your Herdier doesn't have Intimidate, you're pretty much fucked. If it does, abuse that Intimidate.

>>32947701
I may do this after my Plat run
Thanks anon

>>32947701
That's kind of how my coinlocke ended up being. I'll probably add that I can't have more than 6 at a time.

>>32947684
Sounds like a one-mon run, only easier. It'd probably be more fun on something funky and diverse like Ditto

>>32947701
Interesting. Are you forced to catch the first pokemon on a route? I feel like most players would just avoid stuff until they get something decent. Obviously that kind of has its own risks but still. Cool idea.

>>32947705
like >>32947716 said if you don't have intimidate prepare to sack something to boosted retaliate
also i'm pretty sure pidove evolves soon

>>32947716
sand rush

fuck

Hey guys quick question.

I need a randomiser nuzlocke that doesn't spawn pokemon at evolutions higher than their levels.

It pisses me off when I see a lvl 8 feraligatr.

>>32947667
Ah. Good luck with it.

>>32947741
>Are you forced to catch the first Pokémon on a route?

Do you mean, like, can you kill or ignore it? I don't see why not, that is in line with Nuzlocke rules. But you then miss your encounter on that route, and it's one less place you can get a replacement when someone kicks the bucket.

I might do a Blue Heirlock after I finish Moon, see how it works. It's still infantile and completely untested.

>>32947741
>Sounds like a one-mon run, only easier
obviously gym leader clauses would be in place. one-mon runs are only easy (and possible) because of overleveling. picking any random normal pokemon to make a full team and think about movesets could be interesting

>>32947752
Forget this, just, what's the name for the absolute best nuzlocke randomiser.

>>32947701
I like this.

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Here's a shitty tweaked stolen template with the rules I'm using. Going to also note Pokeballs only out of personal preference/ balltism and Shiny clause because it's not going to happen. If anyone has any suggestions let me know and I'll consider changing it up before I get too deep into it.

>>32947939
>my template
Hahahaha honored anon

FireRed Nuzlocke
Basic rules, plus dupes clause (haven't needed to implement it yet)

Team:

Panzer
>Squirtle
>Male
>L14
>Quiet
>Pallet Town

Angery
>Spearow
>Female
>L10
>Quirky
>Route 22

Later
>Metapod
>Male
>L9
>Impish
>Viridian Forest

Birb
>Pidgey
>Female
>L11
>Brave
>Route 1

--------------------------------

Valhalla

Too Good
>Ratatta
>Male
>L5
>Rash
>Route 2
Was poisoned by a Weedle in Viridian Forest, died on the way to the Antidote. Thank you, Too Good, for reminding me of the importance of Antidotes.

>>32947705
no time for a template but Katie the Purrloin died to a critical quick attack

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just came up with autismlocke. thoughts?

>>32948233
I'd add that if you grind, you either:
A: Can't exceed level of your highest level Pokemon, and therefore can't grind your highest level Pokemon or
B: Must grind everyone on the team to the same level if you choose to grind

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my x nuzlocke, current team. still thinking about switching my fletchinder for my houndour but I also need a good fly mon. are there any other good flying types further in the game? I don't remember

>>32948376
not bad, i figured by avoiding as many trainers as possible being forced to grind off of wild pokemon would be hard but i guess that's the norm anyways

i like B

>>32948233
>>32948466
I actually have autism and this is so relate-able

>>32948466
Must heal by using the PC, too nervous to ask Joy to do it.

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Going to bed but here's where I'm at. Starly at Lake Verity, Shinx on Route 202 (God Bless Intimidate), and Zubat at Rugged Pass. The rest were either Tails or dupes, headed towards Oreburgh now.

I had a previous attempt that got all tails all the way to Oreburgh mine where I finally got Heads on an Onix with only a Starly, constantly broke out of balls until crit Tackle+Bind ended the run.

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Holy shit Juptier's Skunktank. It kept landing Critical Night Slashes one after the other.

Lekki lived with 5 HP.

And the fact that it Poisoned 3 of my 4 team members. Not enough Antidotes. But Rhen tanked the Night Slashes well enough to Growl then Bubblebeam for the victory. True MVP.

Goodnight everyone!

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>Have been confused for 2 turns.
>7HP.
>I'll go first
>Enemy will either heal or get K.O'd
>If they heal, I need to land my attack to keep it in a safe HP range.
>If they get K.O'd I win.
>If I hit self in confusion and they heal, I have no easy way to win the fight.
>50% chance I hit self.
>50% chance confusion wears off.
>Switching basically guarantees a heal, but lets me save the confused mon.
>Everything I have that can out-speed and make the most of the heal might get OHKO'd or hit by a SE move if for some reason the enemy doesn't heal.
>The one thing that can 100% definitely tank a hit would get out-sped and confused before it could do anything.

I DON'T WANT TO PRESS ANY BUTTONS.

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ah fuck it doing a cheesy FireRed Omega nuzlocke instead. i forget if shroomish beats brock but i'll probably play it safe and grind it more. both my water types are useless, i think.

also too lazy to do template for now.

>>32948583
eh you seem pretty lucky
looks like it's going so well. did you get tails for your starter?

>>32948743
that's why skuntank is fucking stupid
i'd legit grind stuff to level 30 to avoid being crit.

>>32948840
depends on how much of a threat enemy is. if you NEED to get off damage i'd go for it but if it isn't vital i'd probably switch. unless you have no potions having a confused tank shouldn't be too bad

>>32947382
There is...?

Just check Similar Strength in your randomizer bud...
Thanks.

>>32947658
>this website
Stop tempting me.

>>32947701
Is it just me or does this sound like what a Nuzlocke should always be? The point of a Nuzlocke is to use things you wouldn't normally use.

>>32947752
As above, check Similar Strength.

>>32948840
H-how did it go...

>>32947701
Fuck it, I'm doing this. Cuck Emerald is too hard, doing this on regular Emerald.

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Feels real fucking good man. First update without any new dead mons.
Dr. Acula carrying the team hardcore through Fantina, to the point that I've introduced an MVP award for each update.

>>32948963
>H-how did it go
DR. ACULA SNAPPED OUT OF CONFUSION

>>32948897
I had no potions because I wasn't allowing items in battle, otherwise I probably woulda just healed up the confused mon and kept going.

>>32934196
>Magneton being a fusion monster card
kek

>>32949000
>A Gengar with no moves

is there a sadder thing?

>>32949048
honestly if you've seen how fucked some gen <=3 move sets are you'd know there's plenty of worse things

>>32949000
ah, Godspeed. Crobat shouldn't be this good

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>>32949048
It's pretty sad, but he'll learn Shadow Ball in 7 levels, then when I get to the game corner I can no-life it for Psychic+TBolt.
I have high hopes for my boy.

On an unrelated note; I'm genuinely debating whether or not to add "No Gyarados" to my rules. It's too easy to get and too dominant in-game. I think I saw others playing with the idea before, wondering if they went for it or have any more ideas regarding it?

>>32939670
before I move from the Pokemon lab to the school for another catch, should I change the form of Rotom?

>>32949123
How about "no fishing"? There's probably still lots of chances to Surf but eh, nobody's forcing you to use it.

>>32949237
make it a fire rotom

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kinda want to do a basic randomizer nuzlock of heart gold
how does this look for settings?

bide is the most stressful move

>>32949268
you got it
>>32949361
a neverending waiting game when they use that, especially if they're faster and get it off before you hit. then it's a game of 'who can tank that hit'

>>32948007

Progress now: Just beat rival in Cerulean

TEAM:

Enki
>Ekans
>Male
>L6
>Route 4
>Mild

Later
>Butterfree
>Male
>L13
>Impish
>Viridian Forest

Angery
>Spearow
>Female
>L14
>Quirky
>Route 22

Panzer
>Squirtle
>Male
>L18
>Quiet
>Pallet Town

Birb
>Pidgey
>Female
>L14
>Brave
>Route 1

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VALHALLA:

Too Good
>Ratatta
>Male
>L5
>Rash
>Route 2
Was poisoned by a Weedle in Viridian Forest, died on the way to the Antidote.

Darius III
>Nidoran
>Male
>L10
>Modest
>Route 3
Died to a wayward crit from a wild Zubat. Shame, that. Nidoking is one of my favorite Gen 1 mons.

Cordyceps
>Paras
>L14
>Impish
>Mt. Moon
Died to another critical hit from a trainer's Voltorb.

>>32949465
Correction: Panzer is a Wartortle. Forgot to change that after copying the previous status's details.

>>32948971
Thanks for helping me test my new locke senpai. Hope it's fun.

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>>32948018
grinding my guys up to 20, any last advice?

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>>32949548
Sorry for the shitty pic

>>32949548
>>32949552
Kill off the pansage the first chance you get.

Is an AshGray nuzlocke feezable? I like the league at the end but the events are way too much and too long.

>>32949465

Second badge obtained.

TEAM:

Bagoas
>Oddish
>Male
>L19
>Route 24
>Rash

Enki
>Ekans
>Male
>L14
>Route 4
>Mild

Later
>Butterfree
>Male
>L15
>Impish
>Viridian Forest

Angery
>Spearow
>Female
>L15
>Quirky
>Route 22

Panzer
>Squirtle
>Male
>L19
>Quiet
>Pallet Town

Birb
>Pidgey
>Female
>L16
>Brave
>Route 1

-------------------------------

VALHALLA:

Too Good
>Ratatta
>Male
>L5
>Rash
>Route 2
Was poisoned by a Weedle in Viridian Forest, died on the way to the Antidote.

Darius III
>Nidoran
>Male
>L10
>Modest
>Route 3
Died to a wayward crit from a wild Zubat. Shame, that. Nidoking is one of my favorite Gen 1 mons.

Cordyceps
>Paras
>L14
>Impish
>Mt. Moon
Died to another critical hit from a trainer's Voltorb.

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>>32949560
You jinxed it

>>32949672
Anyways Caesar beat up most of the dog but died to take down. Duke came in and KOd him, and then beat watchog with careful healing and avoiding hypnosis three (three!) times.