Thread question: do you use starters in subsequent Nuzlocke runs of games you've already beaten or box them?

I was nuzlocking pearl and caught an intimidate shinx and starly. I was level grinding them for what felt like over an hour when I had to put the 3DS down. when I went back to it: the game was frozen. I really don't feel like doing that again but I will eventually.
>>59056840
whoops! I see "page 9" and bump without hesitation lol
>>59057065
I never use starters

>>59057188
Shoot that sucks, double Intimidate in the early game is so good as long as you can get past Jupiter and her Skuntank.

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I just beat my pokemon black nuzlocke.

I decided to come back to Black after enough training and finish the game once and for all despite my illness. I beat Cynthia at Undella Town first, then I beat the champion Alder. Cynthia was hard, Alder was easy.

Against Cynthia. First Fat Twat took out her Spiritomb with Flare Blitz in one hit, then her Eelektross with Flare Bitz too, next came her Milotic, Leafy used Leaf Storm but nearly got taken out by Blizzard so Red came out and finished the job with Head Charge, Monty took out Braviary with Rock Slide despite nearly dying to Brave Bird, Daisy took out Lucario with Fly and Aerial Ace and finally Red took forever to beat her Garchomp with Horn Attack and had to deal with Dragon Rush, Earthquake and Stone Edge but finally prevailed and Cynthia was defeated.

Against Alder. Daisy took out his Accelgor with Fly, Fat Twat took out his Bouffalant with Arm Thrust, Monty took out his Druddigon with Earthquake, Fat Twat came out again to take out Vanilluxe and Excavalier and Vanilluxe with Flamethrower and finally Monty dealt with his Volcarona using Rock Slide.

Pokemon Black nuzlocke is over. It was fun but I want to continue with my White 2 nuzlocke.

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>>59057646
Here's my full team and names if anyone wants to have a look and is wondering who Fat Twat and Monty are for example.

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Beat Brock and finnaly got some flying types from Route 3 and Mt. Moon. Leaning towards the Helix fossil and grabbing the Amber as soon as I get cut. Eeveelution wise, probably going with Jolteon.

>>59057625
I was trying again and a Lv. 3 Starly got a crit against my Lv. 3 Starly, killing it (I was trying to grind it up a bit). I think this run is not gonna happen lol

>>59057685
Good start to the run and a decent road map for the moment. You might need some levels to deal with Misty though.

Bump.

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>>59058445
Did some grinding in Mt. Moon and got the Helix Fossil as well as Ekans for my Route 4. Will keep training till the team gets to Level 18 across the board before going challenge Misty.

>>59057650
Is emboar your fave unova starter? Notice you used him in both runs

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Togetic is a great counter to Morty, and Gengar stood no chance but that Hypnosis/Dream Eater Haunter still nearly fucked me up. It got Benedict, Preacher and Hi-Five into the red before it finally went down.
Team is pretty good right now, the losses to Whitney have worked themselves out mostly. I might go a bit crazy and do things out of sequence by going to Mahogany first so we can get thief and get a Metal Coat for Preacher. Pryce is also a massive pushover so I might just fight him severely underlevelled to make it more fun, not sure yet. Also tons of water type encounters coming up, so that final slot might on the team might swap (though both Poli's are pretty good too so maybe not).

>>59058894
Cute team, might struggle against Misty though without a grass type.

>>59057646
>>59057650
Congrats! Cool to see you going all the way to Alder. Really unique team too, I like it.

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Here's my progress today now that I'm back to White 2.

I caught a Tranquil, a Marill under the Village Bridge, a Seviper and a Pawniaed all before the big battle against Drayden which I was worried. Because I was ill, I decided to just give rare candies to Emboar especially since Drayden is known for being very tough and I had no ice types.

I take on the gym leader of Opelucid City Drayden. First I had Emboar take out Druddigon with Flamethrower, then I had Skarmory use Spikes and take out Flygon with Fly and finally Emboar came out again to beat Haxorus who already got hit by the Spikes with Flamethrower. The fight was easier.

I plan on using Emboar less now and I'm gonna focus on my other team.

>>59059007
Thanks. I liked the team too but it's time to say goodbye. It took a while to grind just to reach a reasonable level where I could beat Alder.

>>59059064
Not a bad idea to have your team be more equal in levels. You can also get a Sun Stone for Petilil in Relic Castle before Volcarona, or one in Giant Chasm after dealing with Team Plasma.

is anyone gonna look at platinum kaizo

>>59059806
Me personally, no. I don't do difficulty hacks, and i already know what to expect with a name like Playinum Kaizo. I'm sure someone will run it here eventually though.

>>59060265
this. I might do an easylocke of vanilla platinum though.

>>59057065
Depends on the game
If early pokemon variety is good, I tend to box starters.
If early pokemon variety sucks, I use them.
That's pretty much the only metric I use for using them or not.

I've been chewing on a new kind of locke for a bit. Don't have a good name for it yet. Probably already exists lmao but whatever.
Only really works in games with PC access wherever. Still doable in other games but gets awkward.

You get one Pokemon Center use when you clear a gym or something comparable if the game doesn't have gyms.
Things that faint are dead until the next pokemon center, no revives.
If the game automatically tops off pokemon that are deposited, then pokemon sent to the PC from the party are "dead", otherwise you can do as you wish. You can shuffle pokemon around freely while in the pokemon center on visits where you can heal, of course, but once you leave.
Still only one encounter per route, along with whatever other terms and conditions you like as far as catching goes.
No in-battle items is more important as a clause, since heal-saccing is too strong.

The intent is that you are constantly calling on the boxed pokemon you are accumulating, and training more things, since a lot of Nuzlockes end up with several boxes of trash pokemon that never get used. The goal here is to get upwards of 30 to 60 pokemon in usage rotation
The downsides are the early game is a bit awkward (I've considered normal Nuzlocke rules up until the first badge as a stopgap), it obviously only really works in the newest official games or romhacks, and kinda needs party exp to not be obnoxious.

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Here's what happened tonight.

I caught a Mantyke, an Amoongus and then inside the Giant Chasm, I caught a Sneasel. I also gave a Sun Stone to Petilil and evolved her into a Lilligant.

I beat the gym leader of Humilau City Marlon pretty easily. First Lilligant took out Carracosta with Energy Ball, Giga Drain and Magical Leaf, then Electabuzz took out his fat Wailord with Thunder Punch and Zoroark used the Illision ability to pretend to be Staryu, bait Jellicent into using Ominous Wind which Zoroark resists and take out the Jellicent with Fowl Play. All gym badges collected.

Now that I'm nearing the end of the game. Any advice for Team Plasma, Colress and Ghetsis?

>>59060379
Sounds interesting, but like you said it really is designed to work with more modern games.