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I just DESTROYED Whitney. battle breakdown:
>Aipom use Sand-Attack a few times
>Clefairy's attacks fail and miss
>use Headbutt so Clefairy can't use Mimic to Sand-Attack me
>Clefairy survives in red
>Clefairy uses Metronome and rolls Rest
>use x-items to buff attack, defense, and speed
>1-shot Clefairy with Heabutt
>2-shot Milktank with Headbutt (it flinched)
I left an Onix and an Exeggcute in the Daycare. if I somehow manage to complete this nuzlocke, I plan on banning my Hall of Famers and proceeding to Kanto.
>Lv. 26 Aipom
>Lv. 17 Zubat
>Lv. 16 Wooper
training Zubat is a pain in the ass. is it even worth it? I think I *have* to train Wooper, just to have an answer for Jasmine. maybe I can brute-force Chuck?

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just solo'd Morty's gym with Quagsire
>Lv. 26 Aipom\Boots
>Lv. 24 Quagsire\Woop-Woop
>Lv. 17 Zubat\Mr. Batty
the Red Gyarados next for the Exp. Share

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Golbat just slaughtered Chuck and Quagsire just destroyed Jasmine. Golbat with Screech is godlike. Pryce is next.
>Lv. 31 Golbat\Mr. Batty
>Lv. 30 Quagsire\Woop-Woop
>Lv. 15 Tauros\Thrasher
Aipom was killed because I switched into a Karate Chop (critical hit). Machop was spamming Seismic Toss and Quagsire had less than 25 HP so I couldn't switch it in. I know I said I would ban the hall of famers if I beat the nuzlocke but now I'm not so sure. I might actually be able to defeat Red...

>>59371953
A bit late to throw my hat in, but i think Zubat is well worth training in gen 2. Crobat is going first basically every time and it has good bulk, especially in a game where there are more moves like Bite and Wing Attack than more modern moves.
>Not banning HoFers
What is this, some sort of... cheatlocke? But seriously, if you do make an entirely new team it'll take awhile to train them up to face Red, that's something to consider.

Bump.

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I'm doing a custom nuzlocke run called the cheatlocke with these rules >>59367715 because I'm a big, fat, stinky, CHEATER.
oh, and I can relearn Pokémon moves that are in their level up movepool whenever I want because I will not be taunted by Gamefreak setting moves at Lv. 1 with no legitimate way of accessing them.

just killed Pryce!
>Lv. 32 Golbat\Mr. Batty
>Lv. 32 Quagsire\Woop-Woop
>Lv. 27 Tauros\Thrasher
Claire is next!
>>59372778
>What is this, some sort of... cheatlocke?
very funny. the main issue with gen 2 zubat is getting off the ground. you're stuck with leech life for so long that Swift (TM) becomes your best option until level 30 (when Golbat learns Wing Attack). Bite is a special attack with no STAB plus you don't want to fight psychic-types and ghost-types are rare.

if I decide to fight Red, then I won't ban my Hall of Famers. I usually don't fight Red and just end the run at Blue. banning the HoFers makes Kanto significantly more fun since you actually have to catch a new team and train them up before taking on Gym Leaders. I could also just put the HoFers on haitus until Red instead of perma-banning them; I think that's more than fair, given how under-leveled they will be.

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>>59371349
>nuzlocke
>use x-items to buff attack, defense, and speed
Bruh

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I just killed Claire!
>Lv. 38 Quagsire\Woop-Woop
>Lv. 36 Golbat\Mr. Batty
>Lv. 36 Tauros\Thrasher
the Pokémon League is next!
>>59373994
I will not apologize!

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The run is dead. I wiped at Will. I completely forgot about his Exeggcutor. I'd rather post Karen though. sue me.
>Lv. 40 Quagsire\Woop-Woop
amazing typing, gets the Mud Slap and Dig TMs very early for access to STAB, evolves very early at level 20, gets a good STAB option in Surf, learns Earthquake via level up (unlike Sandslash), has Ice Punch for coverage (even as a Wooper!), a good Pokémon all around despite its lack of speed. unfortunately, there is the occasional grass-type but those aren't too common in Johto's boss fights — B tier
>Lv. 39 Crobat\Mr. Batty
absolutely not worth it. you have to grind a shitter to level 30 just to get a half-way decent STAB move, and it's fucking Wing Attack (60 BP). so, you're either trying to kill other shitters with Swift because Leech Life is pathetic and Bite on Zubat is painfully mediocre or you're giving it the EXP Share in the mid-game when there's dozens of other Pokémon more worthy of that EXP. Crobat isn't awful, but the payoff isn't worth all the investment — F tier
>Honorable Mention
the only other death prior to the wipe; I did not expect Aipom to contribute as much as it did. the fact that I effortlessly raised it to Lv. 27 in Johto speaks volumes. more than a jokemon, Aipom has legitimate worth in the early game while you're still building your team and looking for permanent party members.

I deposited Tauros because I was going to use it in Kanto. maybe I was too overconfident. so, is this place dead now that Conner is taking a break?

>>59374670
How is the run dead? Just reload your save and try again.

>>59374682
what save?

>>59374690
You were dumb enough not to save? Next time make a save so that crap doesn't happen.

>>59374670
It's certainly gonna be slower without him playing.
You probably already did this, but when you run it back, consider taking advantage of STAB Headbutt. Very good combo thanks to abundance of Normal types and badge boosts.

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>>59375579
there is no runback; the file was deleted as a result of a wipe. the other anon was upsetti spaghetti because I use items in my runs and was being passive-aggressive with his hostility. when he was talking about reloading the save, he was insinuating that my run was a casual playthrough.

despite all the custom rules that were akin to cheating: I wasn't playing with the "a loss doesn't result in a wipe; you can use deposited Pokémon if your party dies" rule.

>>59375849
Oh, alright then. So is it on to Y now or are you taking a break?

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>>59376351
I'll be playing a non-Pokémon game for a bit so break for sure. I don't know how long it'll be though.

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Decided to go with Grass types in Emerald next. So far the early game feel smoother than with Ground. No single member of the team is as good as Marshtomp or Geodude but at the same time no single battle has been as dire as when an enemy had a Grass type.
The lower powerlevel certainly makes fights take longer but Absorb and Leech Seed means victory is always an inevitability.

>>59377308
It'll probably remain as consistently neutral matchups until you get to Flannery, and her toughness needs no introduction. Winona will probably give you a tough time as well, but that's probably the worst of it type matchup wise.

>>59368546
I have to admit i think this is the first time i've seen that healing before a battle wasn't a good thing. Have you already tried running it back?

Bump.

Tried my first Nuzlocke since either White 2 or HeartGold years ago, neither of which had me make it far.

Roark wipe to Lileep. Of course that sounds more gracious than it was, I only had 3 usable mons to start the battle with. The Metronome Light that Burns the Sky on my Venonat was a bit rough, but felt recoverable, but then I started slipping after Barry 2 and my inability to catch Machop in Oreburgh Gate + getting Roared by a Vulpix encounter kinda took the wind out of my sails.

>>59379694
Oh I forgot to mention it was Platinum Kaizo, if it wasn’t obvious.

>>59378555
>I have to admit i think this is the first time i've seen that healing before a battle wasn't a good thing
Yeah, the plan involved burning a Milotic before the battle starts, and using it to kill Aaron's lead Dustox. I wanted Milotic to be burned because I wanted Aaron to send in Drapion in a situation where it can't click Swords Dance. Burn helps with that because Dustox knows Toxic, but it can't click Toxic if I'm already statused, and being burned, combined with Milotics Recover, allows me to control Milo's HP better. I wanted to be around 80-ish percent HP because I wager that's around the threshold I needed to get Drapion to switch in instead of Venomoth. Unfortunately, Aaron heals me and that plan goes out the window. So I ended up switching to Flareon, playing straight up, and losing.

>Have you already tried running it back?
Funny you ask this, because I did start a run afterwards that I didn't post here about, wasn't planning to until I at least beat Fantina. Ended up wiping to Aaron again. I had a good plan, but I messed up the execution. Mawile barely missed the kill on Venomoth, and Venomoth put it to sleep with sleep powder. And that was GG because I needed Mawile to kill Venomoth so it could 1v1 Drapion. Unfortunately, Mawile barely missed the Iron Head kill. Should've figured considering Mawile was -Atk nature

What makes that wipe actually terrible, is that after I wiped, I realized Aaron's lead Dustox can't do any damage to Mawile, and Mawile will always bait Drapion, no matter who Mawile kills. So I win the entire fight if I just led with Mawile instead of killing Dustox with Quilava

>>59379694
That's a pretty hefty difficulty jump for so long between runs. Are you gonna try it again?

>>59380286
Well at least you know now, and knowledge like that is a major factor of Nuzlockes. It should help to smooth out that part of the game at the minimum.

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Alright, pretty weird situation but I swear to god this just happened and I want to hear other people's opinion on this
>playing Infinite Fusion Nuzlocke
>pretty far in, at Blaine fight
>IF has a thing for gym battles where you "enter" as many Pokemon as the leader has like in Battle Tower or something for the main games
>Can enter 4, pick my first one
>My fucking cat jumps on my lap and steps on the start battle button
>Enter a 4v1 and black out
I'm actually kind of pissed lmao, would you retry with the living mons or restart since I know black out is usually a reset. I dont want to break rules because I feel like it defeats the point of these runs but at the same time, what are the fucking odds of this. Either way my Magnezone/Tentacruel fusion is considered dead no matter what which blows

Pic related it is Blaine's biggest fan

>>59381445
I wouldn't personally count that as a failed run, I would even go so far as to not count the death, but that's up to you if the game doesn't have built-in Nuzlocke mode. It's not like it was your fault.

Bump.

what do u guys think of emerald for a first time nuzlocke,? well havent done one since 2015, was thinking of picking treecko

>>59383209
Not the worst game for a first run, but there are difficult battles that make it one of the harder games. If you know the game well that's different though.

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cheatlocke part 2: electric boogaloo
rules are here >>59367715 but also, I can relearn moves in a Pokémon's level up movepool because gamefreak forgot to include a move reminder. in-battle items are allowed.
>Lv. 11 Spearow
>Lv. 8 Kakuna
>Lv. 7 Totodile
I just killed Falkner. I'll be doing this run as an alternative when I want to take a break from the other game.

>>59383949
Seems like a decent runback so far, maybe you'll get Bugsy dealt with without much trouble too.

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>>59377723
The Gym puzzle was harder than Flannery. Admittedly, I probably got absurdly lucky but between Flash on Nuzleaf, Sleep Powder on Gloom and Leech Seed on Breloom, she got completely obliterated. The whole battle was me switching between the 3 then letting Grovile or Breloom have the killing blow.
I always forget Lombre gets no Water moves but thankfully he is at least moist enough to take an Overheat.

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TLDR wiped to an early-game Hiker because I only had bad type matchups

welp, the run is dead. I only had Beedrill and Spearow as fighters when I decided to take on the Hiker outside of Union Cave. uknown to me at the time, that Hiker is not like the other hikers: his Geodude knows Rock Throw (Lv. 11). I don't use starters so Totodile didn't have a water move and I had only recently caught the Rattata that was on my team (I think it was level 5). lesson learned.
>>59384657
I have some bad news...

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Attempt 9 (because attempt 8 which I also didn't post about also lost to Aaron.) of Renplat starts the same as all the others, by picking Chimchar. No long writeup, just the list of encounters.
>Psyduck from Lake Verity
>Eevee from Twinleaf, which is evolved into Glaceon
>Random 2nd Sinnoh starter is Turtwig
>Horsea from route 219, south of Sandgem via Old Rod
>Random Kanto starter from Jubilife is Charmander
>Trainer School Egg is Igglybuff
>Route 204 is Starly
>Ravaged Path is Zubat
>Route 218 is Magikarp
>Route 203 is Lotad
>Diglett from Oreburgh Gate
>Oreburgh Mines is Geodude
>Route 207 is Phanphy

With all early game encounters encountered, it's time for Roark, which goes the same as all Roarks, deathless, as Glaceon takes out 5 by it's lonesome. After kicking galactic butt from Jubilife to Floraroma (and the Valley Windworks) it was time to head through Eterna Forest, into the City, and then into the mountains to grab Gardenia. Along the way:
>Random Johto Starter is Totodile
>Seedot from Meadow
>Voltorb from Valley Windworks
>Mareep from Route 205
>Murkrow from Eterna Forest
>100% Feebas from Mt. Coronet
>Snover from Route 216
>Swablu from Route 211

With all that out of the way, it's time for Gardenia. The team I bring is
>Glaceon
>Gyarados
>Murkrow
>Crobat
>Monferno
>Donphan

Glaceon continues it's excellent performance in gyms by chaining Gardenia's first 3 mons, Bellossom, Breloom, and Tangela. In comes Cherrim, and I swap to Monferno. Fake Out, Flamethrower, and a Mach Punch puts it down. Next, it's Gardenia's ace Roserade. I pivot through Murkrow on the Extrasensory, let Donphan eat a Sludge Bomb, before going back into Gyarados and killing with Bounce. Finally, it's Gardenia's last Pokemon, Grotle. That Crobat 1v1's easily. That's badge #2, and the level cap goes to 33, which unlocks Feraligatr, Kingdra, Electrode, Ampharos, Torterra, and Luxray.

Now it's onto the Eterna TG building, Mira, and my arch-nemesis, Aaron.

>>59384817
Oh. That's unfortunate timing. At least you know for next time i guess.

>>59380527
I've tried it a few more times and jobbed harder than my first run each time. Just something catches me offguard and I flounder. Those psychic types in Oreburgh Gate are kinda tough if you get terribly unlucky with Confusions.

>>59386220
yeah. Beedrill and Spearow are both usable but that one Hiker in particular is dangerous at that point in the game if you don’t have an answer.

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I don't want to live anymore you guys. I think I'm killing myself for real this time.

>>59388308
Look up what happens to people who’ve tried that and survived.

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>>59385657
After kicking TG out from Eterna City, I take the Porygon that's left behind in the Eterna building, hatch the gift Togepi in the bike shop, and collect the fossils before heading down cycling road. I get a Slugma from route 206, and a little bit of an adaptation occurs here. Normally I get Cranidos as my fossil mon, but it hasn't done much of anything in the runs I've had it. So this time, I go Aerodactyl. I willingly skip Wayward cave for now. After helping Mira, and fighting rival at the 207 entrance to Coronet, it's time to fight Aaron, my most consistent run ender.

What makes Aaron difficult here is his Drapion. Sniper to power up crits, holding a scope lens to increase it's crit rate, and it also carries high crit moves like Night Slash. Like always, my strategy is to create a situation where Drapion can't use Swords Dance. And I do that, thanks to Aerodactyl. Aerodactyl kills Dustox, and brings in Scizor. I swap to Charmeleon, take the Bullet Punch, and kill with Fire Fang. Now here comes my bane, Drapion.

Two things about this. The first, I made note of how Gen 4 AI decides which Pokemon it sends in after one of it's own Pokemon is knocked out. Turns out, it's two phases to this decision making. The first, being a type advantage. Either move, or Pokemon itself.
>Example, you have a Lanturn that knocked out an opponents Pokemon, and the AI has a Ninetales that knows Energy Ball, and none of it's other Pokemon knows a super effective move against Lanturn, the AI will always send out Ninetales despite the Pokemon type disadvantage
However, I already knew this. It's the second phase that kind of hit the eureka button for me
>If no type/move advantage is found, the AI will calculate the damage of all the moves from remaining Pokemon, and select the one with the highest damage, however, this calculation is done using the base stats of the Pokemon that was just KO'd

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So what that means, is that when Scizor is killed, Drapion's moves are calculated with Scizor's base 130 attack. And Beautifly+Venomoth's special moves are calculated with base 55 special attack. The second thing about this, is that I intentionally left Charmeleon a lower level than the rest of the team, so that it would take more damage from Scizor, and make sure Drapion would always go for the kill, and not Swords Dance.

It worked, really well. Now, the only Pokemon I have that outspeeds Drapion is Aerodactyl, or Dugtrio, but they both lose straight up 1v1's, especially if Drapion gets a hit off with no retaliation. So I decided to play for the draw. I swap into Graveler holding a Silk Scarf on the Cross-Poison.... and I click Self-Destruct. It wasn't an easy choice to do it, but it was either do that, or lose. And this is honestly the first entertaining fight in the game, I really don't want to do that early game again. With Drapion down, Beautifly falls to Monferno's Fake Out+Flamethrower, and Honchkrow kills Venomoth.

The next required fight after Aaron in Fantina, so lets get into that. The team I bring
>Aerodactyl
>Torterra
>Luxray
>Magcargo
>Feraligatr
>Wigglytuff

Aerodactyl OHKO's Drifblim with Rock Slide. Fantina sends out Misamagius that goes for , and I go into Torterra, and it gets a little dicey, but manage to win the 1v1. Out comes Dusclops. I don't immediately switch, hoping that it uses Will-O-Wisp, but it doesn't, and knocks Torterra to 7 HP. Which is actually perfect. I swap into Feraligatr, that's begins the fight on low HP, eats the Shadow Punch to trigger it's salac berry, and kill Dusclops with Crunch. In comes Gengar, who is why I went with salac berry strat, so now Gatr outspeeds and chains with another Crunch. Banette and Spiritomb fall to Luxray and Wigglytuff respectively, and that's badge number 3. Level cap goes top 39, so more evo's are unlocked, and only one death so far. Which is the fewest I've had at this point. So I feel good.

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ok????

Anyone got a link to that one gen iv Nuzlocke comic which was actually good and not bad? Her starter was Chimchar. The one where professor Rowan was a child molester. Thanks.

>>59388988
nice. I think I found a shiny pidgey before I had access to pokeballs once lol

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Bellossom swept most of Norman's team with Sleep Powder and Absorb. Killing all those Solrocks was certainly worth it.
What was a waste of time is leveling up Lileep. It is my first time using one so I assumed a rock wall would be useful in upcoming Gyms. I kept leveling it up, waiting for it to learn Absorb or Leech Seed, anything better than Acid but it never happened. Then I looked in the bag but it also can't learn any of the TMs I have, not even Rock Tomb. Finally, I decided to look it up. Lileep's moveset has to be the worst moveset outside of Gen 1. It at least killed Spinda so I guess it was not all for nothing.

>>59388988
Nice. Shiny Pidgeotto is pretty cool.

>>59389443
usually, I'd say that Lileep is one of those Pokémon that goes from trash to somewhat usable with universal EXP (modern-day EXP Share) but...
>only rock-type attack is Ancient Power
>it gets Rock Slide through breeding
>gets no grass-type attacks by level up
>last moves it gets are stockpile/spit up/swallow
...in this case, it feels like early-gamefreak really hated fossil Pokémon for some reason

>>59389934
Lileep has it much worse imo. The Gen1 fossils have guaranteed access to stab with the best HMs in the game and some of the most broken moves in Gen1 like Blizzard, Hyper Beam and Slash. Anorith is by no means a powerhouse but it does have a weirdly diverse movepool and it even gets Protect for Norman.
Lileep gets less grass moves than Kabuto.

>>59390007
I was under the impression that basically all Pokémon get Protect...

>>59386843
Yeah, Plat Kaizo is one of those hacks that's probably intended for you to plan essentially everything out, even down to encounters and move damage, to make things "easier."
>>59389039
>The one where professor Rowan was a child molester
That's a completely wild thing to just drop out of nowhere. Can't say i've ever heard of that one though.

>>59390563
I get the joke but it doesn't really work when the post specifies the point of the game you'd want it for.

>>59391513
it wasn't a joke, I just didn't get why Anorith getting Protect was special when Lileep gets it too...

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>>59391816
Really?

>>59391820
no, I know why Protect is good for Norman...

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The Winona fight went pretty much the same way, Sleep Powder is OP. Her Tropius setting up the sun was a huge help.
Now that I think about it, half my team has Chlorophyll. I should probably teach Sunny Day to someone.

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>>59388552
>>59388553
Nice work getting past Aaron and Fantina! Do you have an idea as to what your next major battle that might become a hurdle for you?

>>59392654
That would certainly help the team out, and especially would be useful against Juan and Wallace.

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...I beat my other game but I'm not really feeling a nuzlocke...

>>59393703
Not at the moment. I think with the mons I have, I should be able to get back to Candice at a minimum. Maylene should be pretty free, My Snover actually has Snow Warning this time so Wake gets a lot easier than he normally is, and losing to Byron should be impossible

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About to start my genlocke
Never actually played FireRed before, should I do it blind?

>>59396712
A blind run should be fine, the gen 3 remakes are some of the best games for first Nuzlockes.

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>>59396712
>>59396929
it begins

>>59397166
Good luck!

>>59397166
the game corner isn't rigged in gen 3 like it is in gens 1 and 2 so you can abuse it and grab the best TMs in the game. good luck!!

>>59396087
RenPlat gave no improvements at all to Byron i see. Good to hear you've got a somewhat smooth road ahead.

>>59395220
You could do a regular playthrough of a game or romhack, or play another game entirely.

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>>59398839
I think it's because Kalos' main game is very iffy. not only is its identity weak but the pacing in the early game is absurdly slow and then the late game is lightning fast iirc. I don't hate the region but I'm also not really feeling it at the moment. I'll be doing a run of the Fire Emblem Revelation as an extended break.

>>59399314
Kalos' pacing from after Korrina up to Team Flare starting their endgame feels to me like something got cut from the game. It's mainly getting gym badges with small interludes with the friend group to change the pacing a bit. It ad least had a large variety of mons on each route to mix up repeat playthroughs and no long-ass cutscenes on every route.

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>>59397166
Got tired of curbstomping level three ratatas and nearly lost my Mankey to Brock, then this faggot's Ekans nearly KO'd my starter. Starting to think no items is more challenge than I'm ready for
This magikarp salesman is a total scam, right? Unless the Mt Moon encounters are complete dogshit I'm guessing it's a waste to pick up Magikarp now. I'm playing with level caps (the only thing I looked up), and I'm guessing I can get a fishing rod not long after Misty.

>>59401630
No items definitely kicks things up a notch, you could modify the rule a bit by using an equal number of items as the gym leader or E4 member, or allow yourself to heal everyone but your lead in battle, or keep it the same if you like.
Yeah, the old rod is available once in Vermillion after you finish it with Cerulean City. Fishing any body of water with it will get you Magikarp for free, save your money, and preferably get some antidotes instead.

>>59401630
₽500 is not a lot of money. the benefit is that you get Magikarp much earlier than you would have if you waited until Vermillion. yes, the in-game joke is that he is a scammer but realistically it's a fair trade-off.

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>>59391445
It's not serious and is just played off as a joke but might be the reason I can't find it anywhere. It had really good art too.

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>>59401774
>>59401785
>equal number of items as the gym leader
Once the gym leaders start using items I'll consider it, those full restores can be backbreaking
I double checked the level caps, and Misty's is actually high enough to evolve Magikarp. I went ahead and bought it, counting it as my Route 4 encounter.
A bit nervous for Misty, none of my lineup has type advantage against Water and I'm pretty sure I'm out of encounters before Cerulean City. Maybe I can slug it out with Gyarados.

>>59403668
it will be very difficult to have a gyarados before misty...

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>>59404049
It would take a lot of switch training, but he might not have a choice. Starmie with Water Pulse is pretty mean this early in the game.

Hey guys, I'm back.

I've decided I'm gonna do a pokemon nuzlocke again. It's been a while but I'm gonna start with Fire Red. Please give me some suggestions for future nuzlockes I'm gonna do, like some rule ideas.

For this FireRed one though, I'm just gonna do usual typical rules. First encounter catch, I have to be able to catch them though and if I lose a pokemon, they are dead.

>>59406220
don't use your starter (past level 9). you can use your starter in the early game, but you cannot raise them to level 10.

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Fuck Fire Red. I lost on day 1.

My starter was Bulbasaur and throughout the game, I caught a Ratatta, a Pidgey, a Weedle, a Spearow, a Zubat and then a second Ratatta. Bulbasaur did evolve into Ivysaur and Weedle managed to make it to Beedrill.

I had no issue with Brock or the first two Gary fights.

But I did lose Beedrill before making it to Mt Moon and unfortunately I lost Ivysaur to Mistys Starmie using Swift where unfortunately it got a crit and then Zubat and Pidgey also died to Misty.

I tried to grind the rest of my team up to take on Gary but I lost Spearow and the two Ratattas.

This sucks honestly. Should I begin Fire Red again instead of moving on? I want to beat it.

>>59406647
I'd say give it another try with one of the other 2 starters

>>59406647
consider playing with species clause

>>59406719
That's what I usually do. I've decided to make it difficulter. It's why I didn't catch a route 1 pokemon because no pokeballs when usually I would just wait until I had pokeballs until the nuzlocke began.
>>59406695
Yeah but it depends on the last number of my ID though. I hope I don't get Bulbasaur again.

>>59406647
The king is bvck

>>59407002
I mean I lost my first attempt on day 1.

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I somehow managed to get my 20plus-year-old GBA SP to work. time for a casual leafgreen nuzlocke (rules: permadeath, first encounter = catch, species clause).
>Lv. 10 Mankey
>Lv. 8 Metapod
>Lv. 6 Charmander
>Lv. 3 Pidgey
>Lv. 2 Rattata
I just killed Brock. I'm not gonna stress on playing efficiently. I AM gonna try to give would-be shitters more of a chance though. well, maybe not Rattata.

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Sleep Powder+Sunny Day+Solar Beam is surprisingly fun. The only drawback is that the sun doesn't last long and there is no Heat Rock in this game.
The last two Gyms did not stand a chance.

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Day 2, started FireRed again, here is my progress.

My pokemon consists off:

>Charmeleon
>Pidgeotto
>Zubat
>Ekans
>Magikarp
>Beedrill
>Meowth
>Diglett
>Drowzee

I have however lost some pokemon, two Pidgeys, a Kakuna and a Caterpie.

I did have to sacrifice a Pidgey just to beat Brock in which it made itself useful and Sand Attacked his Onix, the same strat was used later on Gary's Squirtle since I had no Grass or Electric types.

I'm worried to take on Misty so I'm skipping her until I have no choice but to take her on. I've basically done everything you can do before Misty with the exception of the SS Anne.

Should I be aware of some of the battles on that ship?

>>59408398
...aaand the run's dead. or rather, I'm calling it quits here since I probably can't beat Misty with just Butterfree. Mankey (Lv. 15) got killed by a random trainer's Rattata (critical hit) and then Jigglypuff (Lv. 14) was killed by a Nidoran's Double Kick. Sandshrew wasn't going to help against Misty and had a shitty nature anyway. I would be surprised I managed to beat Rival 3 with just Butterfree but I guess Compound Eyes + Sleep Powder is just that good. maybe I should try Sapphire...

>>59408650
Man, you've had some unfortunate last couple of runs. Hopefully Sapphire works out better for you.

>>59409127
it's really just the early game that's the most dangerous part of a nuzlocke; it's the part of the game where you have the least number of options. although I will admit, my insistence on not using a starter makes even trivial fights like Brock much more challenging.

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I'll be giving Sapphire a shot. same generic rules as always: permadeath, first encounter = catch, and species clause. I just miraculously managed to defeat Roxanne despite not my Pokémon not listening to me.
>Lv. 13 "Makit"
>Lv. 10 Beautifly
>Lv. 10 Wingull
>Lv. 9 Torchic
>Lv. 7 Poochyena
>Lv. 2 Zigzagoon
I traded my Slakoth for Makuhita in Rustburo City, completely forgetting that traded Pokémon stop listening to you without a badge around Lv. 10, which is the same level it learns its first fighting-type move. what a scam.

Alright guys, I know I just began but I need a break because I'm attending another con. I'm in Scotland. I might do some of my nuzlocke though.

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Emerald with Grass types was very fun. The beginning was a bit slow but the second half of the game is pretty much a power trip.
Bellosom is easily the best pokemon in the game. I initially had no intention of using one and only added Oddish on a whim but I very quickly realized how broken Sleep Powder was. She single-handily turned every potentially bad match up into a sweep and Sunny Day+Solar Beam trivialized the entire late game. Part of me kinda regrets not evolving her into a Vileplume, since Sludge Bomb ended up being really helpful against the E4's Grass types and Drake so stab would've been nice but having the extra stats early certainly helped in the mid game. Also, even if he didn't make it to the final team, Shiftry did end up pulling up his weight.
Sceptile and Breloom are also surprisingly solid, specially in the early game. They both hit hard when they need to, not to mention Absorb and Leech Seed are better moves than people give credit for. Sceptile also gets a surprisingly useful moveset. Leaf Blade, Dig, Aerial Ace, Dragon Claw, Earthquake. It felt like he always had what was needed for the occasion.
Ludicolo, Tropius and Shiftry are all excellent HM slaves who are also capable to contribute in battle. Their typing also gives them some interesting defensive utility. Cacturne is straight up just Shiftry but stronger.
The one let down of the run was Lileep. I really wanted to try out Cradily but holy shit that thing was dead weight.

Next is Water types but I am not sure if I should go for Sapphire or Alpha Sapphire. Does ORAS force you to use the Latios? I don't remember.

>>59409269
aaand I wiped at Brawly. I did the classic mistake of training too many Pokémon and being under-leveled. it seems that playing with the EXP Share in the newer games has spoiled me.

>>59410481
>Sceptile also gets a surprisingly useful moveset
Most starters do. Shouldn’t be too surprising

>>59410554
Not in the earlier generations and specially not the grass ones.

>>59410041
hope it goes well dude

I just realized more people have probably read Muh Phoenix than the original Nuzlocke webcomic at this point

>>59410676
>Muh Phoenix
Literally never heard of this.
My personal thought in the same vein though:
More people have probably watched Jaiden's Ruby Nuzlocke video than have read the original comic.

>>59410693
>Literally never heard of this
It's Nick's edit parody of Avengers vs X-Men
It's basically what if everyone in the comic sounded like 4chan Anons
He called it the most offensive thing he's ever written and included a warning disclaimer unlike Hard Mode despite that CONSTANTLY getting called out for not worth reading due to being "problematic"
Muh Phoenix regularly gets reposted on comic twitter for the sheer shock value of it
They think it's hilarious

>>59410712
Ah, I never really looked into his wider works, so I guess that explains that.
Honestly, going back and re-reading the old stuff though, I like how much of a time-capsule it was of the era. You could feel where and when it came from. It's a vibe that I miss.

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>>59410481
Congrats on winning!
No, you can ignore the Latios or Latias the game gives you.

>>59410481
Pretty awesome team. Probably really good for going up against Juan and then Wallace.

Did you have trouble in thus entire nuzlocke?

>>59411858
Not a nuzlocke, just a monotype run with all the challenge rules minus the permadeath.
But no, there wasn't much trouble. If anything it was way easier than Ruby with Ground types despite having "worse" pokemon and Emerald being a harder game. This very well could've been a nuzlocke, no one in the team really lost any fights.

>>59410527
It's a nifty conveyance, when you have to option to not use it that is, but it's one i personally use it sparingly.

Bump.

Are Oak challenges a thing for these threads? I finally hit credits on White 2 after just over 200 hours.
Fuck grottos.

>>59413650
There was one anon that did an Oak's challenge run awhile ago i think, but for thr most part it's Nuzlockes.

>>59411970
I see. That's good.
>>59410603
It isnt.

>>59410481
I remember once Nuzlocking Ruby and having an attack of maniacal laugh because my underleveled Bellossom just Solar Beamed Groudon into oblivion. I did not even needed to set up sun because that fat magma shrimp thing did it for me.

Bump.

>>59414161
I had a sort of similar feeling of amazement during a Crystal run of mine when my Electabuzz one shot Lance's entire team on its own.

I'm back from the con you guys so I will be continuing doing a pokemon fire red nuzlocke but I'm feeling sad right now.

I felt so alone at the con and I nearly killed myself.

>>59413650
Why not. These threads need bumping and we've got a lot of knowledge around here. And I don't think there's a better thread to post anyway, unless you make your own.

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I got the hankering for a new run after a few years away. Let's do this.

>>59416413
Fucking hell conny I thought you were gonna get laid at the least

>>59416413
jesus dude why do you keep going to these things if they always seem to make you suicidal?

>>59416855
Conner? is that you?

>>59416916
Because it's the only way I can find nerdy people similar to me at big events where there is lots of people I guess. I think I may be unattractive.
>>59416954
This isn't me. Gonna continue with my FireRed nuzlocke tomorrow. 24 hours ago, I was still in my hotel.

>>59416965
>This isn't me.
hmmm ok then

>>59416965
dude it's an anime con, 90% of the people there are going to be unattractive. nobody cares how attractive you are if you're just trying to be friends.
maybe you'd fare better at a smaller scale event, like a local gaming night or something where it's a bit easier to meet people and have repeat contacts.

>>59416976
damn animefags btfo'd lmao

>>59416976
Actually alot of girls where attractive and so where some of the guys.

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>>59417767
whatever I guarantee nobody at an anime con expects you to be attractive or cares if you are. it's in your head. I mean maybe if you're trying to get laid but it doesn't matter for making friends.

anyway I'm starting up a Platinum nuzlocke cause I think gen 4 is the only pre-Switch generation I haven't nuzlocked before. should be fun. probably not really gonna post updates but just trying to make my post on topic.

>>59418486
Platinum is the best game in my opinion.

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I've lost two good pokemon but I made some progress.

My current pokemon are this.

>Charmeleon
>Pidgeotto
>Zubat
>Beedrill
>Meowth
>Gyarados
>Ekans
>Machop
>Oddish

I had some trouble battling Gary on the SS Anne and Misty was quite hard too but no casualties. Then unfortunately I lost Diglett to Lts Surges Raichu in the battle against him but I still won but then I would go on to lose Drowzee later which pisses me off.

Still Magikarp has evolved into Gyarados and I also caught a Machop and a Oddish so mabye it's not all bad.

I also failed to catch some pokemon but it's fine. Any advice for Erika?

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>>59416855
I think i recognize some of those teams. Welcome back and good luck!

>>59418569
It should be as simple as throwing Charmeleon and/or Pidgeotto at her. Just be wary of poison of course.

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Made a bit of progress over the past couple days. Mocha the Sentret and Fluster the Pidgey were all I needed to take out Falkner. I am currently in Azalea Town having just booted Team Rocket out of the well. The biggest disappointment so far is failing to catch an Onix in Union Cave.
>>59418569
It's good to be back.
>>59418569
Yeah, Charmeleon and Pidgeotto should do well enough against Erika.

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Anyone tried to do a nuzlocke on pokemmo? They have harder trainers with better teams, better AI and gym leaders have perfect IVs/EVs so I wonder if the experience would just be more frustrating than fun

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Today has gone great. Only lost one pokemon today.

My main team now consists of these:

>Pidgeot
>Charizard
>Gyarados
>Gloom
>Jolteon
>Nidorina

My backups are these:

>Zubat
>Beedrill
>Meowth
>Doduo
>Venonat
>Fearow

I did unfortunately lose Machop to the big fat Snorlax but that's really it, I beat the gym leader Erika with no issue and now I have a Pidgeot and a Charizard. Any advice for Koga and Sabrina?

>>59420812
>>59420843
Thanks. Though I did good against Erika. It's Koga and Sabrina I'm worried about.

I'm thinking of just spamming through Koga with Charizard and mabye using Gyarados Bite to defeat Sabrina.

>>59420991
>Any advice
train your Pokemon ffs. why are you going up against Snorlax, a level 30 Pokemon, with a Machop? your team is so unbalanced in level. you seem to lose a lot of nuzlockes because you just don't bother levelling half your team. I mean maybe you can brute force things with Charizard and Gyarados (if you get him some levels) but you'll be a lot safer if your whole team is up to par.

>>59421522
I have been. Still got some trainers to battle. I thought Machop could take down Snorlax with Low Kick and Snorlax being known to be heavy.

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Made alot of progress today and no casualties.

My current team is this.

>Charizard
>Pidgeot
>Gyarados
>Magneton
>Nidorina
>Hitmonlee

9 backup pokemon.

>Zubat
>Beedrill
>Jolteon
>Doduo
>Venonat
>Fearow
>Gloom
>Lapras
>Meowth

I managed to beat Sabrina and Koga, Sabrina was hard but I levelled up Gyarados, as for Koga, he was easy. I did everything at Silph Co, beat Zapdos and now I need to head to Cinnabar Island. Any advice for Blaine?

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No casualties again today.

My current team is Gyarados, Charizard, Magneton, Hitmonlee, Nidorina and Pidgeot.

My backup pokemon are
>Zubat
>Beedrill
>Jolteon
>Doduo
>Venonat
>Fearow
>Gloom
>Lapras
>Meowth
>Psyduck
>Omanyte
>Aerodactyl.

I did miss a few encounters but it's fine. I managed to beat the final two gym leaders, do Seafoam Island, the Mansion and the Sevii Islands. Now it's time for Victory Road

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>leafgreen
>almost out of viridian forrest
>up against a lv. 3 weedle
>lv. 6 caterpie has 7 HP
>using a potion would mean healing less than 20 HP
>switching means a chance of getting poisoned
>stay in and die to a crit
hello darkness my old friend

>>59424646
Guessing Gyarados swept both Blaine and Giovanni with Surf, or at least did the heavy lifting. The main concern i have is your levels being so uneven, if Charizard goes down i don't see this run being winnable.

>>59425944
I wish it was easier to grind. I've decided when I make it pass Victory Road, I'm gonna spend hours grinding or mabye find a way to hack in Rare Candies and level mu pokemon up to around the Champions level.

>decide to finally play FireRed
>boot up game
>notice route22 grass patch at the very start of the game got mankey, rattattatta and spearow
>1ATK, 1SPD Ev spot
>do around 600 battles to make sure I max those out on a mankey and rattattatta
On an autism scale how overkill was this?

>>59426005
I-Is that not what everybody does at the start of the game?
I think it is easier to do in Route 1 with Rattata and Pidgey since the powerlevel is lower and the Center is closer.

>>59426402
Gen III so they only give speed.
The only reason I mentioned that is because of Mankey. Having perfectly both speed AND attack on a single grass patch is just asking to make an early sweeper, especially considering how attack types work in that gen.

>>59426005
At the very start? Probably up to 11. I've Ev trained before, but in that instance to bring up some new team members closer to the end. Bit of that's how you want to play, nothing wrong with that.

Chapjeet bread

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Ended up going with ORAS. Playing the Gen 3 and 6 games back to back, you can really feel the difference in difficulty. Mudkip was already pretty OP in Ruby but here, he is straight up unstoppable. Giving access to Bulldoze and Power Up Punch before Wattson is just broken.

>>59427921
And this is all before you get a mega stone and the better TM's. Little to no Geass types is the cherry on top too.

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Just beat Whitney. Thallan the Bayleef beat down her Clefairy with Headbutt while setting up Reflect before knocking it out. To beat Miltank, I swapped in to Amy the Gastly to use Curse, and then swapped to Glegla the Wooper to drop Miltank's accuracy with Mud-slap. Both came pretty close to dying by Rollout, but with a couple lucky misses I was able to hold out long enough for the curse to defeat Miltank.

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This is my final team.

I beat Gary and made it past Victory Road. I'm gonna grind my team up to level 60 before taking on the elite four and champion.

Wish me luck.

>>59429177
Why haven't you evolved Nidorina?

>>59429189
Haven't got there but I will do. I actually forget, how do you evolve her? Do you need a stone or is it level up?

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>had to solve 100 captchas to post
>>59403668
Switch training magikarp continues
Had my first deaths of the run. Lost Beedrill & Rattata to the level 19 Goldeen in front of Misty, and Mankey to a Hyper Fang crit on Route 25
Added Butterfree, Oddish, and Meowth to the team, so I finally have an effective type vs Water. Still planning to grind out Gyarados as a backup

>>59429316
Both of the Nido lines need a Moon Stone to evolve.

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>>59424706
Kanto women are the best

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>>59429950
based

>>59429027
Any run without losses to Miltank is a good one. Are you gonna go in regular gym order or diverge a bit to catch some new team members?

>>59431572
I am going to fill out my roster a bit before I take on the gyms. I'd like to try encountering Raikou and Entei on some of the routes I have open so I can some powerful options later in the run. Raikou would be very helpful, Entei not so much since I now have Arcanine on my team. Aside from those, my current options are not looking pretty hot. And most unfortunately, I lost my Gastly to the Kimono Girls.

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>>59429387
Starting to think doing this blind was a mistake. Figured Diglett Cave would be a good spot to train Oddish and ran smack into a level 29 Dugtrio with Arena Trap.
Was able to beat Misty even without Oddish, though I had to sacrifice Spearow to get a turn to heal Gyarados.

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>>59431756
Yeah, the Diglett line's speed and Arena Trap are a rough combo, but at least you got past Misty. The encounters should start to open up here too.

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know, it's my birthday.

Right now I'm still grinding my team but soon it will be done to take on the elite four and champion. Then I will have beaten Fire Red for the first time. Currently at Durham on a daytrip by myself.

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>>59433134
have fun in the triangle and happy bday
bday shiny luck? perhaps perhaps

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>>59431756
>>59432630
>The encounters should start to open up here too
Boy did they, added four new members to the roster. Diglett's god awful bulk already cost me Zubat, so having Geodude as a backup for Lt Surge is really nice. Could even use Voltorb, except its moves are terrible.
>>59433134
>>59433177
>multiple /vp/edos in my city
terrifying

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>>59431737
Either of the legandary beasts would be a major boon to your team, and Entei at least would be a nice backup in case Arcanine dies. I think you could have left the Kimono Girls for later when you're a bit stronger, but it's been a while since i've played Crystal.

>>59433593
Some decent options there, Ekans would be really nice just for Intimidate if it had it. I don't think Surge will be much of an issue with both Diglett and Geodude on your team.

Bump.

>>59433134
Hope your birthday was good, and good luck with the E4!

Bump.

>>59437788
Another bump for a slow day.>>59437198

>start leafgreen and encounter spearow
>get killed by critical hit peck at 90% health
this run is not meant to be

Quick bump.

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Sizable update on my Crystal nuzlocke run. Caught a whole bunch of new guys and decided to redo the Bug-Catching Contest since the Pokemon that I caught there previously was one that I already championed.
Morty has been defeated, though Big Pappi the Butterfree didn't make it. He got trapped by Gengar and then put down by Hypnosis and Dream Eater (along with some Curse damage from Morty's first Haunter). Dreven the Crobat avenged Big Pappi with Confuse Ray and Bite, finishing out the battle. I anticipate hitting the next three gyms pretty quickly.

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Power Up Punch truly trivializes this game. I don't think I am going to bother with the mega stone, Soft Sand Bulldoze is plenty OP enough. I was expecting the routes around Fortree to at least give me some trouble but Liquid Ooze Tentacruel completely walls Gloom.

>>59438620
You just reminded me of this one anon a few months ago. Probably the unluckiest guy ever, constantly having his runs ended by terrible rng and crits at the same points, really insane to see happen in real time.

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>>59440544
...that might have been me. I just stick to bumping the thread these days.

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>>59433593
>>59435297
In the end Diglett swept Lt Surge on his own, but I've since dropped him for Geodude. The resistance to Normal and 2x vs Flying is really useful for my team.
Made it through the Rock Tunnel to Celadon, and caught Growlithe as a backup if Charmeleon gets unlucky rolls in the gym.
Any advice on what pokemon to pick up here in Celadon? I've tried to avoid looking anything up but I'm pretty sure this is my last chance to get Abra, but I also know I can get an Eevee around here somewhere.

>>59441062
Scyther if you can evolve it, otherwise Clefairy or Porygon. Abra and Dratini are good but they are too frail to be worth it in a nuzlocke. Unless you can evolve it into Umbreon or really need a surfer, I don't think the eeveelutions are all that useful either.

>>59441062
Clefairy is a TM hog, but if you can load it with T-Bolt, Ice Beam, Psychic and Calm Mind (or replace Psychic with Return?), it probably can sweep most of late-game opponents on it's own.

>>59441445
You can't get Umbreon pre-Natdex in base FRLG, you're limited exclusively to Kanto only.

>>59441468
I guess Substitute is also a valid move for Sub-CM cheese. Especially good if you allow healing items.

>>59441475
I know but maybe he is in an emulator or can trade with another game.

>>59440584
The more things change the more they stay the same, right? I'm the same these days, the last few playthroughs i've done have just been playing normally.

>leafgreen
>pick squirtle
>catch mankey
>encounter caterpie
>game freezes
this is so demoralizing
>>59442316
these days, my GBA SP shitting the bed is just as bad as the early-game crits

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Chuck down. Gudboi the Arcanine took care of Primeape with repeated Headbutt attacks and Lulu put down Poliwrath with Spark attacks after Dreven the Crobat proved ineffective against Poliwrath's high defense. Going to go take on Team Rocket and then wipe out the next two gyms.

>>59441062
Jolteon was okay when I used it in FR. Not bad if you need Electric coverage, so long as you have the Shock Wave TM to give it STAB before you can afford Thunderbolt.

>>59442598
Jolteon has a pretty neat late-game trick if you postpone Evolution till level 34.
Eevee learns Baton Pass on that level and then as Jolteon it learns Agility on level 47. Again, it's something really available only for late game, but you can pair it with slow but strong Pokemon like Snorlax or Rhydon.

>>59441062
This isn't even the best Geodude will be, it's an incredible line to use in Johto.

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>>59441445
>>59441468
>>59442598
In the end I went with Eevee. I don't have a great use for it now, but if somebody dies it'll be nice to plug the gap.
Raking in tons of new pokemon with all the routes available & the Super Rod. Worth trading this Poliwhirl for Jinx?
Also, do you anons tend to use trade evolutions in your nuzlockes? I'm playing on original hardware so I can do a quick swap to grab Golem & Gengar.

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>>59443527
Resized the screencap

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>>59443527
>Also, do you anons tend to use trade evolutions in your nuzlockes?
Absolutely. The only reason I can see not to use them is if you can't set up trades to get them in the first place.

>>59442598
As long as you have something sturdy to deal with Team Rocket's Self-Destruct tactics this section of the game should be pretty simple. Clair is gonna be the one you have to plan for.

Is there a downloadable version of the heroku tracker?

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The difficulty curve at the end of the game really is all over the place. The last two gyms are a joke, then the Victory Road is actually kind of challenging. The E4 is a nonissue for the most part with the sole exception of the Ice one, who is a huge pain in the ass with those Froslass. Finally, both Steven and the Rival just fold to Power Up Punch.
It is a fun game and there is some novelty to being able to use physical Water Types but it kinda falls apart in the second half, even harder than the originals did.

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Pryce and Jasmine have been defeated. Mocha the Furret put in most of the work by flinchhaxxing Pryce's Seel and Dewgong and OHKOing Jasmine's Magnemites with Dig. Gudboi the Arcanine took care of Piloswine and Glegla the Quagsire rinsed Steelix.

>>59445559
Glegla was sturdy enough to take all the Self-Destructs thrown at her. I hope that one of my team members can outspeed and OHKO all the Koffing that the one Executive in the Radio Tower has. That guy seems intimidating.

>>59446349
I'd like to know if there is, too. Right now it's slow and clunky and I may not use it again as it crashed before I could export my latest changes.

>>59446357
Congrats on the win! Us there another run brewing or is it time for a break?

>>59447546
I am doing Diamond with Steel types next but I should probably take a little break first.

>>59447914
Always a good idea to take breaks, no sense in getting burnt out. Good luck with Diamond!

Can someone help me?

I really just want to continue with the Fire Red nuzlocke but it's taking forever to fucking grind in this game because all of the wild pokemon are so underlevelled. Why is the game even like this? I swear to God gen 1 and 2 are the worst because every wild pokemon is always underlevelled.

>>59449460
Why aren't you using the vs seeker?

>>59449486
>>59449566
I'm basically before the elite four and champion. I only have six pokemon left.

>>59449587
Go fight those 6 dudes in the cycling road, it should take you like 40 minutes.

>>59449601
I already battled them. I battled every possible trainer. It's just taking forever to grind and I want to get it done before the end of this month so I can move onto HeartGold.

>>59449460
stop training 6-man teams

>>59449706
>I already battled them. I battled every possible trainer.
Then battle them the fuck again.
You have the VS Seeker for a reason, anon, use it.

>>59449706
Like the other anons have said, that's what the VS Seeker is for. Plus this way you get a lot of money for healing items while you grind.

>>59450510
>>59451572
I don't know if I have it. Don't you need to catch a certain number of pokemon and receive it from an aide?

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Can I use the platinum underground on an emulator? I'm a retard who doesn't know how emulators actually work. Would selecting yes risk a softlock?

been playing off and on pokemon for almost 30 years but never done a nuzlocke before, what should i play to ease myself in?

>>59451728
Your favourite one

>>59451831
which is?

>>59451840
Gates to Infinity

>>59451666
You're thinking of the Flash TM, Amulet Coin, EXP Share, etc. You get the Vs Seeker from talking to a girl in Vermilion Pokecenter.
>>59451728
FireRed and LeafGreen are the games i usually recommend for a first run.

I haven't felt like doing a run in so long...

>>59451707
lol yes, you can dig shit up completely solo in the sinnoh underground

if youre using melonds, you can even launch another instance of the emulator and earn the platinum flag for your trainer card. i did it

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>>59446666
I don't know about one shotting them all, it might come down to tanking alll the self-destructs. Crobat might be able to take one, especially with Reflect up.

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>>59443527
Took down Koga without a scratch (ignore the damage on the non-Butterfree team members, that's from the trainers in the gym). With Surf I grabbed Magneton to round out the team (RIP Gengar) and killed this mexican bird
How do you anons tend to handle the safari zone? I saw a Ryhorn but it ran, so I figure I ought to write off the zone.

>>59454683
Since whether the mon flees or not isn't quite as reliant on the players actions i'm a bit more lenient when it comes to the zone.

>>59454683
I allow myself to freely catch what I want with no limits on tries, but I can only catch one Pokemon for entire Safari Zone.
Best encounters unique to Safari in FRLG are Rhyhorn, Tauros and Exeggcute? Chansey is pain in ass to catch even outside of Nuzlocke and it is rather passive in actual use. I don't think that you can break the game by picking whatever you want from there.

anyone here clean the inside their GBA SP? shit was a bitch, and I still didn't get all the dust behind the screen.

>>59456007
I don't think i've ever had to clean mine, but has has been several years since i've used mine.

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Just a standard Emerald run, tho I decided to be bit silly against the gym and after grinding my team I just grabbed my level 5 Shroomish out of box and dragged it through the gym. Most trainers there use exclusively Geodudes and Stun Spore + Leech Seed turned Nosepass int a minor nuisance. I may even consider boxing Kusanagi as Hoenn's mis-game is not very Treecko-friendly.

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>>59456983
ughh... I just noticed that I took the photo upside down.

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>>59456983
>>59456989
Very standard early game Hoenn team. By standard do you mean a normal playthrough or just a basic Nuzlocke? Good luck!

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It's been a while but I decided to pick up the autismlocke again. I am playing Following Platinum so it is not a completely vanilla run but my Battle Armor Piplup getting obliterated by Headbutt makes me think it is not going to be any easier.
The rules are just normal hardcore rules. The only gimmick is that instead of playing all the games, I play one in the pair and any pokemon used in a run, whether dead or alive, cannot be used again. Shinnies are an exception, I already used a shinny Ponyta but I am still allowing myself to use a normal one here.

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Pretty gay pchal never releases his custom roms

>>59458687
Welcome back! Unfortunate that you lost your starter so early, the early game is gonna be rough without it. Good luck!

FRLG is so fucking easy, at least before the E4
I have one death post-Giovanni and it was because I acted like a chimp while training something.

>>59461417
Kanto is far too easy, yes. there's so many Pokémon that can solo the game and gen 1 in particular is easy to break if you understand the mechanics (like abusing the Badge Boost Glitch). Kanto also has a level curve problem where even in Saffron City, the 6th city, you will still be fighting Pokémon in their 20s. they also give you very powerful moves fairly early in the game (thunderbolt, ice beam, rock slide) whereas a lot of modern Pokémon games will lock these kinds of moves to the late game or the post-game.

>>59461538
Something I noticed is how easy it is to EV train in these games
Def? Route 21
Sp. Atk? Pokemon Tower
Sp. Def? Any surf route
Speed? Route 1
HP and attack probably have similar spots, but I've been able to just use the VS seeker for those.

>>59461575
the mere notion of EV training in gen 1 is laughable, unless you're doing some difficulty romhack or maybe a hardcore nuzlocke (which you're probably using rare candies to skip grinding, so at that point, you should just use vitamins to skip EV training)

>>59461969
>gen 1
Kanto*

Bump.

>>59461969
My gift Eevee was Modest with high SpA and Speed IVs, so I felt a bit obligated to actually invest in it.
Incidentally, I beat the Elite Four last night:
>/ev/ - Jolteon
>Kush - Vileplume
>Bigfart - Haunter
>Racket - Graveler
>Selune - Lapras
>SkzzrD - Charizard

>inb4 lol charizard
I rolled a die for my starter, this thing was Jolly, and all it did in the elite four was kill Jynx for me, but it did do something.
Everybody on my team actually contributed to the elite four which was nice

>>59371291
>Because of two initial flinches from Houndoom, I eventually lose Crobat at Flint
>fumble Lucian
>only Mamoswime and Octillery remain
>Cynthia's Roserade used Energy Ball!
RIP Platinum HC Nuzlocke.

>>59461417
The simplicity of FRLG is part of the reason they're usually the first games recommended for first time Nuzlockes.

>>59463561
Rip, sucks to lose a run that way. Any plans for another run?

>>59466121
Actually yes, I've just restarted.
Twice, in fact: I decided to reset after losing two mons in really dumb ways (I only had one badge and I'm playing with fastforward anyway).
So I guess this is technically my third Platinum run.
To be fair, my original run was kinda doomed, since I got stuck with somewhat subpar Pokémon: I'm playing with dupes clause and still failed to force a Gible/Gabite encounter.

Not using items btw (held items are allowed).

Man, fuck this Gastly encounter from the Old Chateau, it just killed itself with double Curse.
No Gengar for m-
>next one is a fucking Shiny
First time in my life I'm using the Shiny Clause.

>>59466939
nice!! congrats on the shiny!

>>59466939
The game felt bad and gave you a freebie. Very nice.

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>Average nuzlocker of vanilla game:
I will assemble multiple competent teams and have fun playing the game with nuzlocke rules.
>Average nuzlocker of vanilla game:
I will use documents and damage calc to min max any fun and difficulty out of the game because all rom hacks authors do is just give max ev/iv and change teams and moves for maxmimum bullshit.

I found new appreciation toward vanilla pokemon because of how annoying is to nuzlocke rom hacks.

Bump.

>>59470305
>Average nuzlocker of vanilla game
you said this twice

>>59466939
neato

>>59471319
Yin and yang, they are two sides of the same coin #wow

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Doing a my first ever playthrough of Sword blind as a nuzlocke with some extra flair to make up for the difficulty hole the new games make.

>Classic Nuzlocke Rules
>Randomized Encounter Pokemon (only NU and lower for Gen 8)
>Can grant 1 egg move on capture
>Randomized Abilities
>Can use any item found in the overworld, no buying items.
>Hard level cap to Gym's ace.
>No dynamaxing outside of gym and E4

Had Lickitung as my starter, thought I was in for a work cut out for me in the early game, but for some reason he learns rollout at level 6 instead of 33 like I thought, so instant Lickilicky after defeating Hop. Fur Coat was an insane get for Lickilicky's stat distribution AND he has a +DEF nature, so I'm thinking I've got a super safe tank even for dynamax attacks.

Accelgor and Galarian Rapidash are great pickups for the first routes, but holy shit, these games give you the move reminder in the first town!?

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That could've gone better.
This run has been kinda cursed so far. I failed to catch a Combee, a Murkrow, a Meditite and a Gastly, all to crits. The Grass Gym and the Galactic building were extremely easy but then Jupiter happened. Finally, I try to hatch the Togepi but ends up being a Hustle one.
I guess this is the team I am stuck with for the time being.

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I'm back.

Just began my Pokemon HeartGold nuzlocke today.

Here is my current team.

>Chikorita
>Spearow
>Geodude
>Mareep
>Ratatta
>and an Egg I plan on turning into an omelette later

I unfortunately got the worst starter but I've gotten lucky with my encounters, Geodude and Spearow will be good for the next gym. I managed to beat the gym leader of Violet City Falkner quite easy and I'm gonna try and get through Johto without a single casualty.

Any advice for this entire game?

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I ended up recreating a new file on the generator to cut down the file size. That seems to have fixed the issues I was having. Small update, Glegla the Quagsire got blown up by the fake director's Weezing.

>>59473110
Keep Geodude alive if you can. It'll check Bugsy and Whitney, especially since yours is female and immune to infatuation, and it's very good at tanking Self-Destruct during the Team Rocket portions.

>>59473110
>Any advice for this entire game?
don't train a 6-man team in johto