Looming encounters edition>What are you running?>How are you running it?>How's your run going?>Are you doing a weird ruleset? And if so, what is it?>/nuz/ resourcesMostly outdated, but if I add something new it will have (Updated) somewhere in it. Let me know if there's something that needs updated if you have something to replace it with.>Nuzlocke infohttps://pastebin.com/8b3rHGuX>Nuzlocke generatorhttps://nuzlocke-generator.herokuapp.com/http://nuzlocke-generator.com/>Guide to running the generator locallyhttps://pastebin.com/etNFB00r>Links to official games (thru Sw/Sh) (outdated)https://pastebin.com/hsJ0TaJ7>Romhack links (outdated)https://pastebin.com/GzWfs9Bzhttps://pastebin.com/GfJ9zhqx>Definitive emulator info (note that OpenEmu is the best option for Macfags period as RBY through B2W2 may all be played on it and all run smoothly)https://pastebin.com/HmVC99sZ>Difficulty listhttps://pastebin.com/vvwTEgwJ>Pokémon Nuzlocke imageshttp://www.mediafire.com/file/sxu318m9an5ulbm/>Pokémon Bank spriteshttp://www.mediafire.com/file/ueadxvt1f52m0md/>Pokémon Home Spriteshttps://projectpokemon.org/docs/spriteindex_148/home-sprites-gen-1-r128/>Additional templateshttp://www.mediafire.com/file/vmfck3jdowgn472>(UPDATED)Anon's Level Caps Dochttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZOwQ2MnzKF-fJuSGEkTUIenGbPoZymS6jYrY6zIbzkk/edit#gid=1752410600>Level caps/general Nuzlocke infohttps://nuzlockeuniversity.ca/2022/01/18/hardcore-nuzlocke-level-caps-by-generation/>Nuzlocke challenge wheel (new!)https://rentry.co/pokemon-challenge-run-autism-wheelsPrevious Thread: >>58838520
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Thread question: what in your opinion is the hardest non-gym leader/E4 trainer battle?
>WhiteI permanently lost Koffing due to a critical hit leaving it at 1 HP and then it got hit by sandstorm. I shouldn't have challenged the fishermen on route 4 so early (I thought Petilil could take them, but Basculin hits harder than I thought).I almost wiped in the Battle Company. I was not prepared for the chairman's Trubbish to trigger poison over and over again. (I would have used the Pecha Berry had I known.) thankfully, I was able to finish the Battle Company without any casualties.party:>Lv. 21 Woobat >Lv. 21 Tympole >Lv. 21 Petilil>Lv. 16 Sandile>Lv. 6 Snivydead but trade-able:>Lv. 8 Patrat>Lv. 13 Purrloin>Lv. 16 Herdiergone for good:>Lv. 19 Koffingnot feeling too confident about Burgh 2bh
>>58906266Really depends.XY has some nasty fucks, there's also Milotic encounter in RS post-Fortree that can be tricky due to rain and overall bulk - hilariously it was replaced with Thunder and Weather ball that also can be quite scary if you underestimate it.Also - in Scarlet and Violet you can visit route leading to E4 very early in the game - you can grab there some nice encounters, few Gimmighoul coins and a TM... and there's the Black-bordered trainer with team in I believe late 50s or 60s? If you foolishly decide to fight it without previous knowledge about it, you may get obliterated immediately.Also, I vividly remember in Platinum a Raichu/Gyarados double battle in the foggy weather. Both cover eath other's weaknesses pretty well, can hit very hard and are annoying due to fog.Also, more of a mid-boss counters but rivals in BW have tendency to jump at you at the end of the route with no warning. They are not difficult but you can be simply unprepared to fight them because what kind of retard will be going back to the previous city just because there's a chance that Bianca will jump at you from behind with her starter and a patrat?
Today all I did was caught pokemon.I caught a Magnemite at Fuego Ironwork and then I caught a Finneon, a Magikarp, a Sudowoodo and a Chatot all before making my way to Canalave City.That's it, I've caught up to where I should be had I not gone to a con and took four days off.
Post Wynona's Big, Blue Bird.We spent quite some time exploring side areas and collecting items, new Pokemon and experience. Fight with Winona was overall easy, but even 4 x SE from Gyara's pitiful special attack had issues with killing it.
>>58906266I don’t really remember most nameless NPCs nevermind a specific onebut the Ace Trainers in Platinum were pretty tough
>>58906390Kind of the same vein as Raichu/Gyarados is the Magmar/Electabuzz double battle from HGSS. It's tricky to approach because the usual counters are at risk or much slower than the two of them.
>>58906259I just want to see someone do a "starter to level 100 before Brock" challenge in firered. It would be an insane grind on wild pokemon until lvl 100 but still wouldn't be as time consuming as Johnstones shinydex Prof Oak challenge on LGPE
>>58906259>white haired brendankys.
just beat Burgh in both files. Black 2 was a cakewalk because I had Darumaka and Magnemite. Woobat surprisingly managed to pull through in White with some help from Tympole. I always thought Roggenrola was the superior Wellspring Cave encounter but perhaps I judged this little bat too harshly...
page 9 bumpminor update: somehow managed to beat Cheren and Bianca on route 4 with no casualties. gonna focus on Black 2 next.
>real one instead of the Necrobumped Connor oneBased
last thread died while I was asleep so I'm just gonna late-night bump
Post Magma Hideout update.Nothing super exciting happened but Echoes will be finally evolving in 3 more levels and our box is full of Pokemon.
Today has gone great. But I think things have gone to well.I beat the gym leader of Canalave City Byron pretty easily. His Magneton used Flash Cannon but failed to kill my Torterra who one shotted it with Earthquake. Then his Steelix set up Sandstorm but my Staraptor killed his Steelix with Close Combat and finally Croagunk used multiple Revenges to slowly defeat his easy to beat slow as fuck Bastiodon that also ran out of Stone Edges. I was gonna use Gabite and Houndoom in the battle because they have type advantages but I wanted to play it safe and not fuck up and those two are a bit behind in terms of levels. Croagunk did evolve into Toxicroak though and I beat the Commander of Team Galactic Mars at Lake Verity in which Luxray defeated her Golbat with Thunder Fang, Houndoom beat her Bronzor with Fire Fang and Staraptor killed her fat Purugly with Close Combat. Tomorrow it's the snow route. Any advice for any dangers in the snowy areas I should be aware off?
Littlemon team #46 to beat Alpha Sapphire's Pokemon League + Champion with level caps, deathless & reliable strats, no potions, usual rules.The last team! I saved Houndour and Drifloon for the last team a very long time ago. They're even not my favorite Pokemon or anything, but I always knew they were great. But holy moly how good Houndour is. Outspeeds almost everything, almost OHKOs everything even without boosts, wow! Drifloon has crazy high HP and uses Stockpile and Minimize to boost and passes them to dog with Baton Pass. It also has Ominous Wind to try to get the omniboost, but that's not even necessary. I don't want to finish this challenge with negativity so I'll just say Trapinch is a horrible disappointment. Woobat is frail, but has great moves for support. Charm, Thunder Wave etc.All the fights have similar patterns:>woobat debuffs>drifloon boosts and passes them to houndour>sweep.I'm gonna post some afterthoughts
>>58908272It's amusing how underwhelming are Tate&Liza in comparison to their Emerald counterpart. Few Surfs and Shadow Balls from Marika and Echoes was enough to beat them before they could even react.Speaking of Echoes, he already evolved into an Exploud. One of my favorite gen 3 designs :D.
>>58908857So I've proven my point(???) for now. Used every 1st stage pre-evolved littlecup Pokemon in Gen VI in a succesful way to beat the game's final gauntlet. I started the challenge on January 2023 and I started posting on these threads in the summer of the same year. You guys are great and always supportive and fun, so thanks <3I started the challenge as a normal nuzlocke plus the littlemon rule. I got tired of losing so I decided that I can save before an important fight and reload but the fight needs to be deathless so there's where this idea came from. I beat the whole game up until the Pokemon League. I struggled for a long time and even thought it can't be done with these rules. Then I found a shiny Clamperl and thought I have to use this lol. Now what does it have? Shell Armor and Iron Defense? Well let's send it against Scrafty because what can Scrafty with only physical attacks do to it? That's when things started rolling.Pic related was another great discovery. A damn moment of peace to set up and think when you find an opponent who pretty much can't do anything to you. Sorry for the spam, I don't mind if nobody bothers to read all this, but it feels nice to say it all loud. I've made notes on Notepad and there's plus 322 000 characters in there.
>>58908896One more post to say that Frillish became my new favorite Pokemon <3It's hard to say who is the "best" Pokemon, but if only one then I'll say Ferroseed. I'll take that little nigga anywhere on any teamBest offensive Pokemon: Abra (Gastly, Houndour)Best wall: Ferroseed (Poison Heal Shroomish)Best support: Mareep & Chikorita & TaillowBest generalist: Tangela (Misdreavus, Porygon)Weird ass reward: Phoebe's Banette, Drake's KingdraCheesiest strat: Air Balloon Dark Pokemon against Steven's Claydol (Zorua Illusion strat, Encore strats)Scariest monster: Megagross (Froslass, Walrein)Joke award: Mega Absol (Mega Glalie, Altaria)Most fun fight: PhoebeNuisance award: Glacia's Abomasnow with Snow WarningSurprising cat heroes award: Meowth & PurrloinSurprise award: Baby PokemonLifetime award: Zigzagoon for Pickup and finding me useful itemsBest item: LeftoversBest move: ProtectBest strategy overall: debuff & boost <3Here's a picture of Sharpedo taking a six times boosted Flamethrower from Houndour to the face. That's a good way to end things.
>mono (gr)ass with shit speed (60) and shit defenses (67 for both)>chlorophyll is boring and useless unless you get the Sunny Day TM, take up a move-slot to learn it, and waste a turn setting it up (oh, you just powered up fire types for 5 turns btw but at least it learns it at level 45!!!!!)>water absorb is good but makes absolutely no sense for a cactus>storm drain makes even less sense (locked as a hidden ability)>no powder moves because that would break immersion :)>level up move-pool is just grass moves, barely any coverage, and goofy gimmick shit like acupressure or ingrain>tm move-pool is somehow even worse (poison jab and aerial ace? wow, amazing...)>tutor move-pool arguably just as bad since you have to cough up shards (non-STAB drain punch with the inferior attack stat, bounce, and 20 BP knock-off...)>only good against 2 gym leaders (not counting Elesa because Emolga has Aerial Ace and Zebrasrika has Flame Charge because fuck you LOL)>no winning match ups in the E4 lmaowhy does this thing exist? just to suffer?
>>58908895Post-Groudon, three words: PRAISE THE SUN! \o/ !!!I could just throw Master Ball at it, but that's lazy and cheap and gay. Instead I used sandstorm TM on Solaire to negate Sunny Day and from there best Groudon could do was trying to Bulk Up and Slash, which was kind of scary, but the real Son of The Sun prevailed and killed the vile beast with his mighty Psychic powers.
So, I'm doing a genlocke or whatever, and I've just beaten Leaf Green.Apparently the idea is to bring your surviving champs to the next game via pkhex. I figured I could just reset their EXP and EVs and add an egg move and be good, but pkhex throws a fit saying PID mismatch.Not to mention I found a shiny, so I want to bring that along, too, but I legitimately can't touch this thing's EXP without pkhex sperging out. All my champs lose their PID_Method and Origin Seeds in pkhex.Am I doing something wrong or what
>>58909662Nevermind, I asked ChatGPT. Had to set met location to Four Island
page 9 bump!>Lv. 25 Darumaka>Lv. 21 Magnemite>Lv. 15 Panpour>Lv. 17 Herdier>Lv. 21 Cottonee>Lv. 22 Sandslashselling Castelliacones one by one is driving me insane...
Been trying to get a RR 'Locke done, but I keep either making stupid mistakes, or get easily tilted and soft-give up by not trying to team build in hard fights. What is this kind of mental block, even? I'm either trying way too hard (to the point it's inefficient to spend an hour on one fight) or I wanna quit the run and grief
>>58910334aren't challenge romhacks designed around hacking your EVs and using rare candy to basically treat the game as a puzzle instead of a companion raiser?
>>58910400That's the point of a nuzlocke
>black 2 easylockejust solo'd Elesa's gym with Sandslash. this spiky boi is not half bad! no casualties to report.
>white easylockeyeesh. just "wiped" to N's Darumaka. thing hits like a truck. according to my rules, I don't have any usable Pokémon in so I must trade.
>>58908896Has it seriously been three years? Crazy how much time passes when you aren't paying attention. One final congratulations!
Today things have gone great and I went to the snowy area.I caught a Snover, then a Swinub and a Sneasel at the Acuity Lakefront before making my way to Snowpoint City to take on the gym leader Candice and it was tough.First I had Toxicroak use Revenge after her Sneasel used Aerial Ace, Toxicroak took alot of damage but then took out Sneasel in one hit, unfortunately I couldn't use Toxicroak against Piloswine so I switched to Staraptor who used Close Combat to take it out in one hit, next came Abomasnow which set up a hailstorm, Houndoom took it out with Fire Fang but Abomasnow did get in a Focus Blast dealing alot of damage meaning I had to use Luxray for the final battle against her Frosslass that became more evasive in the Hail due to Snow Cloak as well as using Double Team, Luxray did managed to get some Crunches in but took alot of damage from the constant Blizzards, eventually Frosslass ran out and switched to using Shadow Ball, not wanting to lose a pokemon, I took the opportunity to switch out to Staraptor who is immune to ghost attacks before using one Aerial Ace that can never miss and finish of the evasive Frosslass once and for all.Tomorrow I'm dealing with Team Galactic. Any advice?
>>58911680Oh, damn, my mistake. Challenge was started on January 2024 and first victory over the Pokemon League was on July 2024. Yeah, the year before last year was 24, not 23.. SorryAll time KO top list:30 / 30: Tentacool, Hippopotas, Rufflet, Goomy, Minccino, Totodile, Larvitar, Houndour29: Teddiursa, Rhyhorn, Mudkip23 - 28: Tyrunt, Skorupi, Pawniard, Stunky, Gligar, Shellder, Bronzor18 - 20: Mienfoo, Anorith11 - 17: Gastly, Munchlax, Cranidos, Sneasel, Scyther, Diglett, Ferroseed, Machop, Amaura, Pancham, Shellos, Doduo, Staryu, Wailmer, Torchic, Slugma, Riolu, Squirtle, Binacle, Croagunk, Flabébé, Piplup, Vanillite, Shieldon, Gulpin, Skrelp, Pumpkaboo, Smoochum, Roggenrola
