>>57159192
Outrage on Nidoqueen sounds awesome!
Hypno just gets slightly worse each gen, still usable up to a point but you have better options introduced each gen.

Does anyone know if there is a Rom Hack for Fire Red that adds all the gen 9 difficulty and makes the game entirely double battles? I think it would be a fun challenge

>>57161096
> official games (thru Sw/Sh) (outdated)
Noticed that Platinum and BW2 are not on Vimm anymore sadly, where else can I look for them?

>>57161160
try pokemonrom

>>57161143
Don't know if it's gen 9 difficulty, but Doubles Fire Red does what you're asking. It uses gen 3 mechanics for battles and such, be warned.
>>57161160
This site works according to a reddit comment, otherwise I would just scour less visable rom sites.
https://www.romsgames.net/nintendo-ds-rom-pokemon-platinum-version/

>>57161231
I'll scour your less visible rom site if you keep acting up

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Another update, but another death. Most unfortunately, this time it was Donatello. He got crit in Rock Tunnel. My Squirtles seem to be cursed as in all of my runs, none of them make it to Blastoise; this run seems to be no exception. As a replacement, we're bringing in Toadude the Poliwag. Also got our Eevee, and as is tradition, I pick my Eeveelution via RNG, and we got Umbreon who evolves by Moon Stone in this hack (as does Golbat, but I kept it Golbat for the gym battle). Speaking of Erika, I have a Golbat and a Beedrill with Acrobatics--how do you think the fight went?

>>57161114
Yeah, it's pretty sick but I'm finding I rarely have to click it. Any of her other moves do the job without getting locked in. Still, nice to have for later on!

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Littlemon team #10 to beat Alpha Sapphire E4 + Champ
>from Sidney until Champions
>level cap, no bag items, usual restrictions, every fight must be deathless
Munchlax was a beast as expected. MVP with 15 kills, which is the new record by far. Basic moveset is Substitute, Double Team, Stockpile and Rollout.
Swablu is surprisingly good as it could kill Haxorus, Flygon, Mega Sableye and Kingdra (to mention a few). In the winning run it only killed Flygon, but on many test runs it could easily trade places with Munchlax. Very good speed and Sp.Def + Cotton Guard.
Spheal is an honorary member, because it was on my team way earlier and helped win the first championship.
I had Tentacool on the team and it worked really well, but he's too cool to be used to only kill 1-2 opponents and bait Haxorus. So I changed it and there's a chain effect everytime you change something.

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>>57161987
So here's how it goes:
Sidney
>Krabby soloes, pic related lol

Phoebe
>Pooch kills Banette to erase Toxic threat
>Munchlax comes in on Mismagius, sets up and sweeps
Mismag might as well paralyze, Munclax dgaf. It might actually be good, because the it doesn't get burned by Chandelure.

Glacia
>Darumaka kills Abomasnow
>Munclax comes in against Walrein, sets up, sweeps
Thick Fat + Rollout = Glacia team panic

Drake
>Spheal kills Altaria, Dragalgae
>Swablu kills Flygon
>Munchlax comes in, sets up against Kingdra, kills the rest
Swablu's got great defenses + Roost + Moonblast, so it might as well sweep, but this was the winning run now.

Steven
>Darumaka kills Skarmory
>Krabby kills Aggron
>Munch kills Aerodactyl, Carbink
>Pooch (Air Balloon) sets up against Claydol and kills Megagross
If you send Flying / Dark against Claydol, he switches. But if you use Dark with Air Balloon it gets confused. Then Pooch can Substitute and Howl x6

>>57161949
Starters either die anticlimactically in the beginning, dramatically in the middle, or survive to the end. Unfortunately Donatello got number two. Rip.
>>57161989
I love that drawing you made, so much personality!

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I beat HG Johto (again lol)
>Will
Alakazam sweep
>Koga
Alakazam sweep
>Bruno
Alakazam sweep
>Karen
Lapras solo
>Lance
Lapras sweep

Lapras is a good lead for Lance because Gyarados will use Dragon Pulse for some reason. as I expected: Alakazam is amazing, but Lance and Karen are high hurdles for him to overcome alone. my previous run ended with Lance because Alakazam could not 1-shot Gyarados even with Choice Specs and Ho-oh is quite awful against Lance.

I can never bring myself to complete Kanto these days (it's too boring imo) so I'll take a break for now and maybe screw around in Platinum with traded mons for once, just for fun. happy New Years.

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My worst day yet. I had to box Mooncake the Mawile, Sachima the Tsareena, and Cha the Hawlucha because they went over the level cap.

I accidentally ran into Veteran Eric and had to fight him with a battered team (as I had forgotten to heal after the previous fight). And, well, he throttled my dumb ass. At least it was nobody terribly important.


My initial plan for Totem Kommo-o was to explode The Bomb, but I realised—no, wait, that's stupid—so I led with Trevenant instead. A Will-O-Wisp crippled Kommo-o, and I switched out into Morbier to whittle away at him.

Got greedy, left Morbier in a turn too long against Scizor and he was in the red. I knew the Pursuit was coming, but I switched out anyway hoping that by some miracle Scizor would use another attack. RIP.

Ultra Necrozma is next.
Plan A: F.E.A.R. Raticate
Plan B: The Bomb

>>57161989
Really impressive and good going! I love the look Scrafty gives Krabby in the middle there.

>>57161949
Sorry about Donatello! Does Red++ change movesets/stats much? It looks like a neat romhack.

>>57163054
>>57163288
Thank you!

>>57163288
>Veteran Eric
He's such a deadly encounter if you aren't ready for him.

I usually play with Dupes Clause, but I have an idea for something quite different that I might do at some point:
>PackLocke
>The largest Group of duplicate mons you have must be on your team at the same time.
If you have say, 4 starly, they all have to be on the team if they outnumber your other mons. The open spots past the pack is open to your choice. You can end up with a pack of 6.
The only exception to the pack rule is if you need another mon for an HM function.
Gyarados is obviously banned.

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After Nurgle bestowed the blessing of Pokerus upon the entire army, they marched on Oreburgh and Revelation solo'd the entire gym with his golden glory. and bubbles.

Happy new year /nuz/!
>>57163781
That gets you an army of Bidoofs in Sinnoh. I pity whoever runs this rule and gets nothing but Kricketots.

>>57164694
>That gets you an army of Bidoofs in Sinnoh
It might depending on your luck. Starly is the most common catch in Sinnoh followed by Bidoof, I believe.

>>57163781
>spoiler
a bidoof or starly run? what's the appeal?

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THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

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The emperor's protection does not extend to vampires, apparently.
At least Manlet went out in a lore accurate way, sucking extreme shit as he did.

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Another quick little update. Post-Giovanni and Pokémon Tower; Giovanni went down pretty easily and Pokemon Tower wasn't much of a challenge. There's a new Rocket Executive fight at the end of Pokemon Tower with a Houndour and Honchkrow, but our team was too strong for him. We also caught a Cubone in Pokemon Tower; pretty neat to get a rare encounter, but considering we have Beyonce and also a Diglett and Sandshrew in the box, we don't really need that.

>>57165868
At least he sucked in service of the Emperor. His divine presence made all the more evident in his clutch survival.
>>57163288
FEAR Raticate is the best solution. Sorry about the loss of Morbier. And yeah, it's pretty neat! I don't think it changes stats much, but movesets are quite different.
>>57161989
The Krab God is too powerful, congrats!

on second thought, I'm not feeling platinum at the moment. I guess I'll take a break from nuzlocking.

>>57164880
Bidoof is a lot funnier of an option.
>>57166426
It's essential to avoid burnout with Nuzlockes, otherwise you don't play for months or even years.

>Attempt to begin Black 2 Nuzlocke (Normal Mode).
>Gets to the 1st gym
>The gym's Pup fucking kills me, doing 70% of my Mon's health
Holy fucking shit. It's the 3rd time I lose to this fucking dog. What the fuck. I'm only 2 levels behind it.

>>57167666
Unova doesn't mess around, Lillipup has good attack for a base mon, especially if it gets to use Work Up

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Done with Mossdeep. Despite having two dark types I decided to over prepare a little and bring a second water type as well. Turns out I didn't prepare enough, it is only by dumb luck that I didn't lost more mons.
Van got crit Earthquake turn 1 and survived with like half a pixel of HP.
Offi took a Psychic while pivoting and somehow barely survived.
Mory got burned by a Flamethrower and would've died without the berry.
And while all this was going on, every single one of Sol's Bites caused a flinch. She is the best. The last turn of the battle was Sol and Mel ganging up on the Lunatone and I love how cool they look together. They are such an aesthetically pleasant pair.
Then Van singlehandedly dealt with Team Magma while Steven hit himself in confusion and missed Thunders. For a Sharpedo, he is quite the tanky special attacker.

>>57169591
RNG seems to be swinging back and forth between the game and you. Hopefully it fully swings your way by the league.

For people who have done nuzlocke runs where they can only catch the mons native from that generation, is the experience interesting/worth it in BW2?
Asking because giving that BW already locks you into the regional pokemon, I was considering skipping "regionlocking" BW2, but maybe the increased challenge still makes for a fun experience.

>>57170837
I have only done the opposite, a "grognard" run in emerald where I refused to use the pokemon from the current generation. Final team was Starmie, Donphan, Skarmory, Ninetales, Heracross, Magneton. BW2 is great for that kind of run. If you've already done a regionlocke in BW I really don't see a reason to do it again, give yourself a different experience instead. The game gives you an opportunity to do it that it didn't give you in BW, take it.

>>57170837
It’s how I play the games normally m so Nuzlocking wasn’t too different but it was much more fun than seeing Lucario, Ampharos/Magnezone, Azumarill, Flygon, Arcanine, Crobat and Eeveelutions like everyone else uses all the time.

>>57170837
In my opinion, it would just be playing BW again but the NPC's get non native mons. I would just allow one or two non native mons on the team.

Bump.

>>57171104
>Used four of these in my first B2 playthrough
I feel called out and i don't like it.

Thread question: What gym leader has given you the most trouble in your runs?

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This is how we came out at the end of Victory Road. I will never forgive Veteran Ella for taking my bird from me. She was literally the last trainer I fought before finally reaching the league. Could have completely avoided her too.

I'm a little embarrassed over Winters's death. I didn't realize Zoroark can change who it's disguised as if the last Pokemon faints—in this case, Lucario, who Zoroark would have otherwise been disguised as. So I had Winters Will-O-Wisp what I thought was Silvally, and he got oneshot.

Time to start planning for the E4.

>>57173918
I've only done two runs of Hoenn, but Tate and Liza always mess me up.
>>57166368
Comfy team! I don't often see Beedrill being used into midgame.
>>57169591
That Mossdeep fight sounded scary, holy shit.

>>57174390
Hindsight is 20/20 they say.
Beedrill typically dies by or around midgame, that's just when it starts to get outclassed.

>>57173918
FALKNER

>>57173918
Whitney

>>57173918
Specifically Sinnoh, i'd chose Fantina. It feels like she can match any of the few team options you get before Hearthome.

>>57173918
Emerald Wattson, has always been a guaranteed death for me if I didn't start with Mudkip.

Bump.

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Finally done with the plot, only the final rival and the league remains. I am so fucking tired of surfing. Whoever was in charge of designing the water routes in this game can eat a dick.
Also fuck confusion. Archie almost Swagger my team to death then Juan's Luvdisc almost killed Inja with Sweet Kiss. Thankfully, I was able to switch to Offi and everything went smoothly from there.
Lax Incense Shedinja vs Double Team Kingdra was hilarious. I can't wait to use Inca in the league.

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On a Blaze Black 2 challenge mode playthru rn, burgh was a total bitch to get past but after that I got a huge power spike cause most of my mons evolved. I didn't intend to build a sand team at first but my lillipup had sand rush and I already had cacnea on my team so that gave me an idea. I'm not sure if misdreavus will stay or not, shes kinda just filling the gap for now. Overall i'm having a blast with the game tho, I have a newfound love for stoutland. About to face the driftveil gym.

>>57178790
>not sure if misdreavus will stay or not
I love Misdreavus
>>57178361
>fuck confusion
It's fuck if your enemy uses it. It's fuck trying a confusion strat yourself

>>57178790
Post Burgh is when the game opens up from what i understand. Intimidate is the ability i would personally want on Stoutland, but nice to see Sand Rush getting use!

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Beat Koga. I think that our time with Vanessa has reached its end, since Alucard covers pretty much everything it can. I tried adding Anso the Vulpix to our team, but it died pretty quickly. Luckily we caught a Slugma named Mag, and leveled it up into a Magcargo. Also Toadude evolved. Koga went down very easy, Sandman just clicked Psychic four times.

>>57178790
Rarely see people build weather teams in Nuzlockes, so I'm excited to follow your run!
>>57178361
Glad you managed to avoid disaster with Archie. Any idea what you're evolving Clamperl into?
>>57169591
Seems like Ella claims a lot of deaths, sorry for losing the bird so close to the end. I think Molayne is your biggest hole, so anything you have that can do fire or ground moves is a good addition. And thanks, Beedrill was honestly cooking via Acrobatics but I think I have to dump it now.

Bump.

>>57173918
I would say Tate and Liza

>>57179917
How is Magcargo fairing exactly in a gen 1 environment? I would imagine it's still difficult to use being so slow.

Bump.

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Beat the last gym, did the league semi-finals and beat Oleana.
Raihan was a decently tough fight even if just by virtue of being a double battle but both him and Marnie were kinda invalidated by Blackguard and Goblin. Hop on the other hand seems to be the god of RNG, with it's Dubwool's Zen Headbutt flinching Hugsy 3 times before it finally died, after which I didn't expect his Snorlax to outspeed Bewear even after a speed drop from Hammer Arm. Really sucks to lose him this late after being on the team all game, I'm gonna miss that oversized teddybear.
We did get a cool rare encounter in Galarian Darumaka as one of our final catches of the game, so he's getting the final slot on the team. And it's a damn delete button, Jesus. Gorilla Tactics is already nuts, and the fact the game gives you a choice scarf makes it even more insane. Now all that's left is to finish the Pokemon League and the darkest day stuff, let's see if there's any challenge left.

>>57179917
Sucks to see Beedrill leave the team, but it's a very understandable decision. Cool to see Magcargo used instead, wondering how it'll fare in Kanto.

>>57178790
Can't believe gen 5's weather meta even extends to nuzlockes now. Cool idea for a team though, really wanna know how it works out.

>>57178361
I've never minded the water routes themselves, I just desperately wish they had more than the same 3 encounters every single time.

>>57174390
Never knew that was how Illusion worked either honestly. RIP Cha, I was rooting for that brave little guy. Good luck with the E4, looks like you have some pretty good stuff in the box to cover your losses with!

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My luck really has been all over the place this run. Found another shiny while grinding Mel for the Wally fight.

>>57179917
>Any idea what you're evolving Clamperl into?
I wasn't planning to evolve that one since I have Van already but I guess now I am evolving a Clamperl. It is naughty so it would've been perfect for a Huntail but Gorebyss is just better in this game.

>>57182456
>I've never minded the water routes themselves
I just get lost a lot in them. People bitch about the surfing speed in Gen4 but Gen3 feels exponentially slower since the routes are longer and I have no idea where I am going. The encounters do get dull but my biggest gripe with them is that they give no exp. Underwater is pretty much the only safe place to grind at this point.

>>57181535
Well, Slugma was terrible until it got Flamethrower, and I just got Magcargo right before the gym, where I didn't use him. So we'll see. Magcargo ended up super clutch for me in my previous Gold run if I'm being honest, so Mag's got some big shoes to fill.
>>57182456
Noooo, not the teddy bear. But yeah, Galarian Darmanitan is absolutely cracked, no clue what they were thinking when they made him.
>>57182593
Lmao nice

>>57182593
You're braver than i am training a Fire/Ground type underwater, i'd be paranoid about a death from an unlucky crit.

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Aaand that's the league finished! I've honestly enjoyed the boss battles quite a bit. They've basically all been based around making sure I had screens up before our opponent sent out their Dynamaxed ace, but that was fun to do. And if that wasn't enough to stand up against them I could just stall out the Dynamax turns with Bashfull. This strategy might've actually been pretty difficult if the AI wasn't hardcoded to send their ace out last, but it was good fun like this.
The Leon fight was no different. Had to work around Aegislash with Bashful by recovering on it's King's Shield turns and attacking on it's attacking turns. Goblin put up screens twice, first placing both against Haxorus, which was then deleted together with Dragapult by Snowman. Then I stalled out my own screens against Inteleon with Oakheart's Synthesis so I could put them up again on Mr Rime to ensure I had them up against Gigantamax Charizard. Locomotive then proceeded to annihilate Charizard. Good times.
Also Gigantamax Eternatus didn't even attack me once, he just seemed to really really hate Hop for some reason.
Definitely the easiest pokemon game I've ever nuzlocked, shockingly easier than USUM considering it came right before it. Though my team is kinda bullshit, I probably would've struggled a lot more without screens. Then again, I wouldn't have had that struggle if I'd used dynamax myself.
Probably gonna go back to an earlier game again next, maybe play Saphire to finish the gen 3 games.

>>57182593
Are you gonna use it? Finishing a nuzlocke with two shinies would be insane. And yeah I guess the sea routes do look a bit samey so I can understand getting lost. I just played that game so much as a kid I mostly know them by heart.

>>57182802
Maybe they were just really desperate to make sure they had a strong ice type that gen. Good luck with Magcargo, I always love seeing weaker mons get their spotlight.

>>57183712
It is relatively safe, everything down there is fairly slow, has no good moves and dies in 1 hit. Getting trapped in Clamperl's Whirlpool is the only real danger but even then, it is nowhere near as dangerous as the random Tentacool you find while surfing.

>>57183746
>Are you gonna use it?
Most definitely.

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Time for a new journey, entire mod is basically copypaste Renegade Platinum over BDSP but it's been so long I've actually played any games let alone any rom hacks this might prove to be difficult.

Everything up to 1st gym went pretty smoothly but when it was time to go to Valley Windworks oh boy was it a rude awakening. Mars's Purugly doesn't fuck around and Speed Boost Yanma was annoying as well. I was pretty lucky that I got out of the fight with only 3 deaths but I was kinda devastated I had to sack my Hisuian Growlithe, I would've love to use it more.

Next stop is Gardenia and after taking a sneak peek of her team it looks to be very rough fight.

>>57183746
Congrats on the win, good luck in the next game!

>>57184424
Romhack makers are continuing the tradition of Purugly being a run ender i see.

>>57183905
Even so, that small chance of getting trapped in Whirlpool would make me paranoid. I just like to minimize risk as much as possible in my own playthroughs.

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I somehow survived Victory Road without losing anyone. I completely forgot how many double battles and Slaking there are in there. I came in with 30 Super Potions and came out with 0. Inja also almost died to a Electrode's Roll Out but the Lax Incense is the best item in the game.
Clamp's debut battle against Wally went smoothly. She solo'd half the team then Mel dealt with the Magneton and Inja finished the Gardevoir. I haven't fully figured out who I want to bring for the E4 yet but I am thinking Clamp might be a good Baton Pass receiver. Or I could also teach her Baton Pass and Calm Mind and go full on Baton Pass chain team. I am not sure.

>>57187055
I get it but all the late game Hoenn routes have something that can trap, poison or confuse you. Sometimes all three. I just find Clamperl to be less threatening than Tentacool and Golbat.

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>>57186040
well all "boss" battles are supposed to be hard especially in rom hacks, fully EV trained mons have that extra power which requires you to do extra planning how you wanna take on that fight.

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Meet the new champs! USUM reaffirmed my love for nuzlocking. This is one of my favourite runs/teams yet. Garlic in particular was the MVP. He tore through the E4 and was my lead for every single fight except Olivia.

>Molayne
I led with Garlic who walled Klefki, set up 4x Work Up and then swept with Thunderbolt.
>Acerola
Garlic led again, set up a single Work Up while getting Screeched by Banette. A combo of T-Bolt, Shadow Ball, and Ghostium Z for Palossand took care of the rest.
>Kahili
Garlic's Electrium Z KO'd Braviary, and T-Bolt was mostly enough for the rest.
>Olivia
No particular strat here. My team had great matchups against Rock.

>Champion Hau
Incineroar was the biggest threat because he could hit almost everyone SE. I had Dagon Protect through his Z move, then risked switching in Celia who took almost 50% from a Flare Blitz and then survived Earthquake by 15 HP to take him out with her own Z move. That's a lot of faith to put into not getting crit for two turns, but it worked out.

Mooncake toxic stalled Leafeon to death. Tried to do the same to Crabominable, but she was getting overwhelmed with damage. Taro Milk switched into an Ice Hammer, took big damage and then finished it off with Dazzling Gleam. Noivern came in next and unfortunately flinched her with Air Slash. Garlic came in to save the day again by twoshotting with Thunder Bolt (and surviving Dragon Pulse with 3 HP in the process).

>>57179917
At least Vanessa can enjoy her retirement. Anso dying sucks, but at the same time I love to see Magcargo getting some use.
>>57182456
>>57183746
Thank you and congrats! You have me thinking, I should do a SWSH run for how chill it is. Are you running on actual hardware or just emulating?

>>57187738
Nice. As much as I hate what it did to SM's story, USUM really is one of the most fun to play pokemon games.

>>57187738
Congrats! Any plans for a future run? Or is it time to rest?

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Haven't been able to update in a while, but we finished off the league and the entirety of the postgame! Also took care of Red, but since I didn't want to grind for several days, I just took the easy option of cheesing him with a Ground type and some X items
Not a lot of interesting things to say really, wish I had more opportunities to use Camille Lyon the Ditto, but I should've had a dedicated status setter to help with that, because hard-switching into an opponent as a Ditto is just not very viable. Oh well, at least now I don't have to bother with it again in a game where it doesn't even get the Eviolite-like effect from Metal Powder

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>CAN I BEAT A HARDCORE MONO-DARK TYPE CLITTYLOCKE OF POKEMON PLATINUM WHILE TYRONE FUCKS MY WIFE?
>Here are the rules:
>1. Chasity must be worn for the entire duration of the run
>2. Headphones blasting BBC sissy hypno PMVs must be worn for the entire duration of the run
>3. Buttplug must be worn for the entire duration of the run. For every Pokemon that faints, the plug diameter increases by 10cm
>4. Only Dark type and black coded Pokemon can be used
>5. No overleveling
>6. No using items in battle
>7. If the run is a success, you can feltch they wifey's pussy when Tyrone is done
>8. If at any point you run out of usable Pokemon or decide to forfeit, the clitty cage remains on for 2 more weeks
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Haven't done a nuzlocke in a while, so I decided to boot up Moemon Star Emerald since it seemed pretty cute. I kinda got screwed with encounters as only Fuu could deal with Rock types easily. Roxanne's Omanyte got an Ancient Power boost and sweeped a lot of my team (in hindsight it had Weak Armor, so maybe Kanon should've used Fury Swipes earlier). Game seems fairly harder than standard emerald, so I may only give updates when I reach a later checkpoint and not when I have to start a new run. Still pretty fun.

Just wiped to Whitney’s Miltank again, I didn’t even get her to use milk drink or rollout, stomp and attract wiped the whole team

>>57189552
She's the thing everyone remembers about Johto for a reason. Are you jumping back in?

>>57190080
I think I’m gonna reroll until I get a female starter, it was doubly embarrassing because I didn’t even force her to use milk drink and rollout, attract snd stomp took out my whole team, I don’t know how it hit Gastly but it did

>>57190698
>I don’t know how it hit Gastly but it did
Miltank is one of the few Pokémon with the ability Scrappy, which allows it to hit ghost types with normal and fighting moves.

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>>57188810
I was in the middle of a Pearl nuzlocke before I had the sudden urge to run UltraSun. I've been trying to get back into it, but for as much as I love DPPt for the nostalgia, they don't keep my interest in a nuzlocke.

I might just do Sapphire/Ruby/Leafgreen instead.
>>57187883
Yep, I've only done two playthroughs of SWSH, and haven't tried SV yet, but USUM are such a full experience.
>>57188873
Nice! The NFEs in your champ teams are adorable.

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I am so glad I choose to replay Emerald. This is easily my favourite champion team ever.
Things started rough since I got greedy and Sidney's Mightyena roared Inja away. Thankfully Offi had no problem getting rid of it and from then on it was a fairly normal fight. Crawdaunt could not touch Inca and Mory easily defeated Cacturne and Shiftry. Absol was a bit trickier but the combined efforts of Mory and Clamp took it down.
And then the fun began.
Against Phoebe, Inja set up a Substitute and a Swords dance, then Baton Passed to Mory. Things got scary towards the end because one of the Banettes lowered her Special Defense and Dusclops' Ice Beam almost two shot but the Sitrus Berry came in clutch.
Against Glacia, Inja set up a Double team and max Attack and Mory completely obliterated her team.
Against Drake, Inja set up a few Double Teams and a Substitute and Clamp slayed all of his dragons.
Then came poor Wallace. His Wailord kept pointlessly trying to set up Rain and rolling for Blizzard while Inja set up for max Evasion, max Speed, max Attack and a Substitute, then Baton Passed to Inca, who proceeded to cleave through his entire team with Fury Cutter. Words cannot describe how good that felt.

Now all thats left is defeating the real Hoenn Champion.

>>57173918
Lenora, she just has a damn solid team for early game and retaliate hits like a truck.

How do you guys deal with gifted pokemon
I started Storm Silver and They just gave an eevee so i don't know if i should just go ahead and consider it route encounter

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And straight back at it with Saphire this time, always love being back in Hoenn. I've already used the other starters in Emerald and Ruby, so now it's Mudkip's turn. My main goal this time is to bring Silky the Dustox as far as possible, ideally all the way to the end. Let's see if I just jinxed it or not.
And RIP Tanuki, I feel like I always lose Zigzagoon quicker than any other early route mon and it's always due to negligence. Maybe it's because it always feels pretty strong so I don't expect it to die. This time I got tricked by a low damage roll followed by a high one.
And the game tosses way too many water and grass types your way for Roxanne to ever be an issue, let's be honest.

>>57192111
As long as it's the first encounter in the area I take it.

>>57191814
Nice job, good luck with the final fight! Double shinies is already cool as fuck, but that's an amazing team. Especially love seeing Ninjask and Shedinja being used, they're some of my favourite mons and baton pass Ninjask was an absolute bro in my Y run.

>>57187738
Great job! Genuinely impressed with your run, I lose nearly double that many 'mons in my game. I played SW on hardware but am playing Saphire on emulator now and yeah it's a chill run to recover from USUM. And pretty short since you barely have to grind between the overbundance of exp, high level wild mons and few need to train new ones.

>>57188873
Cool champions team, love seeing Ditto made it even if it didn't do much. Lame how they nerfed metal powder in later games, it wasn't even that strong (would've been great with imposter though).

>>57187883
Probably my favourite pokemon game on gameplay if I ignore my nostalgia, but at times I just wished the story would stop interrupting the game every ten steps.

>>57190698
>>57190710
I did a run with "only Normal moves" and Scrappy Miltank was the MVP. Love that cow

>>57189198
Got much encounters in this part of the game. Musashi is the best as 1 layer of Toxic Spikes was crucial to my win. Lost a few members due to Rock-type coverage, but after an Acid Spray, Ochako was able to beat Brawly's Hariyama. Feeling pretty good since all my deaths so far are only due to gym leaders. Roberta's sprite is my favorite of the newcomers.

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>>57192813
whoopsie

>>57192823
>May fight has Brave Bird Swellow
Nevermind. This hack is irredeemable bullshit.

>>57192111
It's fine if it's the first encounter.

>>57192945
Could be worse, the hack maker could have made a infatuation user with a paralyzing move.

>>57173918
Flannery in Emerald. For some reason I always lose something to her. Also not a gym leader, but I swear to god, Emerald Wally always manages to jumpscare me/hax me and make me lose valuable encounters. I nearly wiped to him in base Emerald after he haxed my shit with Garde/Magneton, and his /Roserade/Garde killed 5/6 in Emerald Seaglass after my Scizor hit itself in confusion adn then got crit by Zone's Thunderbolt

He's not a hard fight either, I just get stupidly unlucky/reckless

>>57194547
Flannery is the first leader with cohesive strategy, first she sets sunny day, and they goes rampage with Overheat, she's a menace if you go complete unprepared

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First leader done, rip Geodude, atleast you took half of the team

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I'm emulating SWSH on Ryujinx, is there a mod or something I can install to turn off EXP All?

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>>57194451
Venus from Pokemon Colosseum is a nightmare. I could never nuzlocke this game.

>>57195763
There's a couple for yuzu on GamaBanana. I don't know if you could modify them for a different emulator or not.

>>57195229
The thing is that I do come in prepared, but that Torkoal is so fucking tanky and hax reliant that it'll manage to find a way to kill something anyways

>>57196118
A Nuzlocke of that game has to be absolutely fucking brutal

>Insanely limited amount of encounters
>Every fight is a double battle, including boss fights, making planning significantly harder
>Many fights reliant on complex strats or just plain hax
>The final fights full of incredibly, INCREDIBLY powerful Pokemon

>>57196118
I remember Venus 1 being a nightmare in my casual playthrough, i can't imagine nuzlocking this game at all

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Still on me lock fatigue. It's been like a fucking year lmao. Played it for two days and immediately lost Mago to what has to be my most retarded move yet. Kasib was on the SKWUAD to kill the Totem, which they did. What should I put on the team? I'm thinking about Dhelmise. Wanted to use Froslass, but Dawn Stone is fucking post game what the fuck.

>>57192192
Dustox fares better in the Hoenn Remakes iirc. Fav Hoenn chad?
>>57191387
>Sinnoh Early Game team + Chatot
Based. Is that the 10% Psyduck?
>>57188873
Oh you back Ronja? How you been, chaddie? Also nice Kim Possible reference

>>57197130
Oh I forgot something that makes this even harder
>Having to purify all your encounters since they otherwise don't get moves or experience

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First two gyms of Silver down, but not without a little hiccup. Greator the Totodile managed to Rage himself through Falkner easily, his Pidgey is basically a Rage-boost machine to tee us up for Pidgeotto, but attempting the same strat with Bugsy did not end up so well. His Metapod and Kakuna went down easily, but Scyther proved to be too much unfortunately. I didn't intend on using Totodile (much rather save him for HGSS where he gets access to physical Water moves), but it still stings straight up losing him. ROCKY was able to come in to land a Screech after Greator's sacrifice, allowing Peanut Log to secure the KO and the win.

>>57196118
>>57197130
>>57197132
I've nuzlocked Colosseum twice, once as part of a previous full series locke, it's really not that bad as long as you prepare for some of the tougher fights, the huge level spike that Venus 1 presents being one of them (the trainers before her have mons in the high 30s to low 40s and then level 45 outta nowhere). The real monster here is Gale of Darkness, that game is fucking relentless at times, especially the last third of the game which is basically all of Citadark Isle, my death toll for my first (successful) run was nearly 2/3 the available mons

>>57191387
>The NFEs in your champ teams are adorable.
Gotta rep the cheerleaders!

>>57192192
>My main goal this time is to bring Silky the Dustox as far as possible, ideally all the way to the end.
I believe, Dustox can actually be surprisingly useful in Gen 3, rooting for you!

>>57197157
>Oh you back Ronja? How you been, chaddie? Also nice Kim Possible reference
I'm back back back again! Kinda gave up halfway through my 2023 full series locke cuz I was putting so much pressure on completing it and got burnt out, now I'm on a much more relaxed pace and having a blast. Also hell yeah picking up on that KP reference. Btw you can get a Dawn Stone from Poke Pelago which I highly encourage you (and anyone playing Gen 7) to use!

>>57195568
That's a super rough loss. Does this hack let you evolve trade evo's normally?

>>57198454
Yeah, it add new items for trade evos and area evos (Magnezone,Probopass, Leafeon, Glaceon) that work like evo stones, item trade evos like Kingdra and shit just requires said item to be used on the pokemon like a stone

>>57197639
Is Ledian gonna be a Baton Pass buffer? Or maybe it can actually attack since this is before GF said "fuck you in particular."

>>57199547
It gets access to Thunderpunch and Ice Punch via TM, and since it's pre-phys/spec split that's coming off of Ledian's marginally better Sp.A...I mean, 55 IS higher than 35, but you kinda have to hit a weakness to even 2KO, but at least it can do that this gen. It does have pretty great special bulk so it can take a few attacks at least

Bump.

>>57197157
Lasib is already trained up, and how often do you get to use Granbull? I say stick with it.

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Gutted by the loss of Merle and Charap. I had been so excited to use them. I shouldn't have boxed Indigo knowing that that Gyarados was coming up, but I was too lazy to go back and thought I'd just wing it (heh) instead.

Anyway, Maylene's Lucario really did me in. Bonsho KO'd her first two Pokemon, but Lucario immediately got the attack boost from Metal Claw, forcing me to scramble. He then proceeded to get the paralysis from Force Palm every single time. And then KO'd poor Merle with a crit.

Cheri Berry Natural Gift (fire type) from Indigo wasn't enough to finish Lucario off, either. Damn Rivalry lol.

Really should have brought a Gyarados along, but I didn't feel like grinding up that level 7 Magikarp all the way up to the level cap.

>>57197157
I used an Intimidate Granbull in one of my Kalos runs. She was incredible, so I'm biased toward keeping Kasib on the team. If you do go for Dhelmise, I think Bouncee could take a break.

My Ultra Sun run had both Dhelmise and Tsareena, and the latter ended up doing nothing that Dhelmise already couldn't do.

>>57197639
I remember your Colosseum run! I had taken a break from nuzlocking after that point, but still I find it incredible that instead of picking up where you left off, you started the full series nuzlocke
from the beginning. I get burned out of a region too quickly to be able to run the games back to back like that.

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Littlemon team #11 to beat Alpha Sapphire E4 + Champ
>from Sidney until Champions
>level cap, no bag items, usual restrictions, every fight must be deathless
>Scyther edition (or so I thought)
Since Scyther has 500 base total stats, I wanted to create a team around it with sub 300 stats Pokemon. I'm kinda confused. This was the easiest team to win the game, I did it like in one sitting. And it wasn't all Scyther. Surprisingly Purrloin was a hero of the team, too. Electrike and Wurmple are honorary members, since they helped me in the early game. I don't have much to say about this team except it was great. It just happened so fast and easy.

Sidney
>Purrloin Charms Scrafty
>Scyther switches in and sweeps

Phoebe
>Purrloin with Lum Berry & Unburden leads
>a couple of Hone Claws, Banette Toxics, Purr gets Speed boost when losing berry
>kills Mismag, Chandelure, Dusk
>Helioptile kills Drifblim
>Scyther kills Mega Sableye

Glacia
>Electrike kills Obamasnow
>Makuhita & Purrloin kill Froslass
>Purr Charms polar bear
>Scyther comes in and sets up and kills the rest

Drake
>Scyther leads, sets up, sweeps, lol

Steven
This was a weird ass strategy that I made up at the final moment. Rain Dance Electric team strat.
>Electrike with Damp Rock sets up Rain, kills Skarmory, then Volt Switches when Aggron comes in
>Makuhita kills Aggron
>Dry Skin Helioptile comes in and kills Carbink with Surf
>Claydol comes in, Purrloin sets up and sweeps the rest of Steven's team

All time kill list:
17: Scyther
15: Munchlax
11-13 Pancham, Shellos, Doduo, Torchic, Staryu, Wailmer, Torchic, Slugma

>>57202042
Purrloin the unexpected MVP! Plans for team number 12?

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>>57203201
I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what this Pokemon is. Seems pretty strong, so let's try it.
And maybe it's finally Tentacool's turn to shine.

>>57204088
That also looks positively annoying to fight against. The E4 won't know what hit 'em.