SSF Does The Pokemon Nuzlocke Challenge.

[ssfgrgawer]

Ok so this one is hopefully gonna be a bit of a running event, whenever i get time to play ect.

First off:
What is a Nuzlocke challenge?
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-nuzlocke-challenge

For those too lazy to click the link, Its basically a self induced Pokemon hard mode. Works on pretty much any Pokemon game, from blue or red to X or Y

Here is a flow chart, where you can decide what options you want for your own Nuzlocke challenge.
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/82496...ocke-challenge

its entirely up to the player as too how much of it they decide to follow, however the standard basic rules are:
1: You must catch the first Pokemon you come across in any given new route/cave/whatever. should you accidentally kill said Pokemon, your outta luck and have gotta wait till the next route/cave/whatever to find a new Pokemon for your team.
SSNOTE: It is acceptable if the first Pokemon from any given route is one you have already caught, You get a "re-roll" and can capture the 2nd non duplicate you find. IE: you catch a pidgey on route 2, then find a pidgey first up in Veridian Forest, You can re-roll for another NON pidgey.
SSNOTE2: If the first encounter in the area is a Double Battle in dark grass, the player may choose which of the two Pokemon they would like to catch. (if you already own one of said Pokemon you must catch the one you dont have. if you own both, Reroll rule applys.)

2: Any Pokemon that faints is considered dead, and must be released. NO EXCEPTIONS.

3: Nicknaming every Pokemon you catch. - The idea here is to give you an emotional bond with your team, so even if its a crappy caterpie, you wont just disregard it. (optional but highly recommended.)

4: Your starter Pokemon is based on your trainer ID: IE If the last number is 1-3 the player starts with a Grass type, 4-6 is Fire type, 7-9 is Water type, 0 is the player's choice. (Also optional but highly recommended)

5: Not officially enforcing the rules until the player has Poke Balls and can catch Pokemon. For example, the Poochyena/Zigzagoon that the player has to save Professor Birch from is not counted as the first encounter on the route, and not counting any other encounters as such until they can catch. Likewise, in the games where the rival battle is immediately after getting the starter Pokemon, the "any that faint must be released" rule is not enforced at that time.

6: If the player has no Pokemon that can use a certain field move that is required to continue through any given point of the game (IE strength, cut, ect), they may catch another Pokemon that can learn said field move. However, it cannot be used in battle for any reason, and must be released, permanently boxed, or migrated as soon as the player gets another Pokemon that can use said field move.

A good idea is to put said HM ***** in the PC before you go to battle a gym leader, so you aren't tempted to use them.

Pretty easy right?
Those are the rules I intend to use in my challenge, you can go harder or easier, should you chose to accept.

Trading Pokemon is somewhat of a grey area, for instance trading to evolve a Graveler or a Haunter, is normally decided in your rules, since ill be playing on An emulator, I wont be trading to evolve Pokemon.

Ok So a few more things:
http://www.behindthename.com/random/ - Name generator for your character if you don't want to think up a name yourself. (My Char will be called "Hann" thanks to that site)
any Pokemon game can be found emulated online, some quick googleing and torrenting will get you any game you like, apart from Pokemon X and Y, which aren't Emulated. - I will be using my favorite Pokemon Game of all time: Pokemon Gold.

*There will be a double post to start the story*

[ssfgrgawer]

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Day 1: The Beginning.
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I find myself standing in the middle of my room, staring at the Tv, there's nothing on. The radio is playing Prof' Oaks radio show.
i walk downstairs olny to be ambushed by my mother who begins telling me my pokegear is back from the shop, then wont shut up even though i know how to use the phone, she still tells me how to use it anyway, shes always worrying too much. hopefully today is the day i get my first Pokemon, Mum did say during her rambling that Prof Elm wanted to see me, so i guess ill rock n roll over and see whats up.

I walk outside and the sun is up high in the sky, Its probably around 4:30 in the afternoon, Not really an early start but hey better late then never i guess. i speak to the fat bloke out the front, Who repeatedly tells me that prof Elm discovered some new Pokemon, which is highly random and no mater how many times i speak to him, he says the same thing. Very odd man.

I walk on and after a brief chat with a lady in the street who tells me how nice my pokegear is, I spot a guy with Red hair peeping in Prof elms window, Like some kind of freaky bed intruder or something, I don't even know. I talk to him and he pushes me away and goes back to fapping in the corner or whatever it is hes doing, Just said what are you staring at and pushed me back out To the Curb. what a Weirdo.

I rock up into Prof Elms Lab and like whattup? and he proceeds to tell me a long story about Mr Pokemon who lives to buggery, and basically he wants me to go see what he wants, This is gonna be a looonnng day i can tell, At least Elm says he will give me my first Pokemon, Which is pretty awesome.

My trainer number is 62828 so i guess ill pick the water type Tododile which is a pretty awesome Pokemon, I think im gonna name him Snappy, cause hes got a huge mouth. after i tell him this, he basically tells me to go walkabout and see what Mr Pokemon wants, he also tells me how to heal my Pokemon with the machine to his left, and gives me his number, Weirdo, I so don't want his number, Mabey if he was fine id consider it, but yo hes old and I'm like 10, so ain't nothing happening there. on the way out his aide runs over and gives me a potion, and then tells me there is olny two of them, so they are always busy, which is cool but kinda creepy at the same time.


I walk past the guy with the red hair, Who is still fapping in the bushes looking at prof elm, what a wierdo, and start off on my journey. almost as soon as i walk into the grass i run into a lvl 3 pidgey, but since i cant buy pokeballs yet, I dont have to capture it just yet, but the day is young! plenty of time to add teammates, A few scratches later and the pidgey faints. i run into a sentret before i get out of the patch of grass, so i get snappy to scratch it a few times and leave it where it stood Pokemon training ain't for the faint of heart i guess.

I remember seeing a potion bottle lying on the ground up north a bit more so i run up and pick it up, im not sure how long its been laying there, but who cares, these things don't have a use by date on em do they?? after picking it up i get back on the path and after a few more pokemon laid to waste at the feet of my Snappy, he grows to level 7, I decide to use the old potion i found on the ground on him to get him back to health since hes not looking so good.Eventually We arrive in cherrygrove city where there is an old man waiting in the pathway, i speak to him and he shows me what a Pokemon center, a Pokemon mart and the ocean look like, As if i didn't already know what the ocean was. he then shows me his house and gives me a map, I dont know why he showed me his house i aint exactly planning on visiting him ever again.
I pop into the Pokemon center, and heal snappy back to full health and Full PP on his moves, He learnt Rage at level 7 so now i have 3 attacks to chose from, Scratch
Leer and Rage.

I get to Mr Pokemon house without much trouble and find a pzcureberry in his tree outside, Must check other similar trees on the way home.
Mr Pokemon has Professor Oak in his house and between the 2 of them, they talk to me for the best part of 10 minutes. By the end of it i need a leak so with the Egg that Mr Pokemon gave and the Pokedex that Oak gave me i head outside and As i get outside the door, The bloody phone rings. Elm sounds hysterical, Hes saying something about being robbed? i didnt really pay attention cause my bladder is about to explode, So i hang up after he shut up, then run over to the tree for a leak, Oh sweet baby jesus i needed that.

i start walking home and kill a few more pidgeys and sentrets and caterpies on the way I even found a lvl 5 metapod who insisted on using harden 200 times *sigh*, and soon make it back to cherrygrove, i found a few berrys on the way and some bloke in a house gave me another berry, so i gave one to Snappy, you never know when it might help. AS i try to leave Cherrygrove on my way back to my hometown, The Red headed bush fapper runs into me. He has a Pokemon, And challenges me to a battle, But im like lvl 8 by now so have a clear advantage over his lvl 5 chikorita pretty wussy Pokemon for someone who talks so tough.

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The Battle
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I used rage, and he trys to growl but it fails, Apparently he picked the only chikorita in known existence that cant growl, cause it fails 2 more times, he finally gives
up and hits snappy with a tackle, but That just builds my snappys rage, which makes em hit harder. another rage and his chikorita faints.

Afterwards he tells me he will be the greatest trainer ever, But hes already lost. odd person still hasn't told me his name, just ???. I told y'all he was a weirdo.
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Back to new bark town and into elms lab where elm is chatting to a copper, Doesn't really look like officer jenny from top down, but i could be wrong. he asks me what the
red haired weirdos name was, so since he didn't have a name, i called him fapper. pretty accurate description i think.

The cop wandered off, so elm asked me about the big discovery and i show him the egg, he runs backwards and forwards telling me how great this discovery actually is,
unlike the normal junk Mr Pokemon finds. when he learns Oak gave me a pokedex he tells me how wonderful oak is at spotting potential and how close me and snappy have gotten
so he decides to send me on a journey and i should tell my mother before i go. ON the way out the door the Aide gives me 5 pokeballs. LET THE NUZLOCKE CHALLENGE BEGIN!!!

[ssfgrgawer]

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The Challenge Begins
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after i finally get my mother to shut up, i walk out of the town and some random guy lurking in the bushes runs up and trys to teach me how to catch Pokemon, Homie please, he couldn't catch herpes in a brothel. I tell him i don't need help and go to find the first Pokemon i get a chance to catch. A level 3 Sentret appears. Ok i can work with that, I lower his HP a little with a scratch and throw a poke ball, I catch it first go, and name sentrent Feral, cause ferret was too obvious of a name. I duck back to elms lab and heal feral and then decide i want to battle with my new Pokemon. we go back to the grass looking for something low level to beat up. we find a lvl 3 pidgey who dodged my first tackle and hit me for 5 hp each time he attacked and he olny has 15 hp, I switch out after landing a tackle on it in favor of snappy, Who quickly defeats the Pidgey Its gonna be a slow old ranking for Feral at this rate.


I go through the doorway to route 46 on the way to cherrygrove, and find a level 2 geodude who i manage to capture after a few scratches whom i named ThaDude. I now have a team of 3!!!!!

on the way to the pokemon center my Feral manages to beat a lvl 3 hoothoot on the way home so hes not totally useless after all.


Im now on the road to Violet city, To face my first gym leader this should be fun. I face youngster Joey a little further up the road, I had a chance to capture a ratata but accidentally killed it, so still a team of 3, I need to put some levels on thaDude, so he switches to first position in my team


My now lvl 5 Feral 1 shots Youngster ++++'s lvl 2 pidgey, and i switch to the now lvl 5 ThaDude to take on his ratata. Thadude may not hit very hard, but nothing hits him hard either The lvl 4 ratata only taking 1 hp per tackle. A bit further up the road a bugcatcher puts my feral to lvl 6 and ThaDude to lvl 7. Getting a pretty good team so far. I consider dropping into the dark cave to find another Pokemon, and as i get there i realize i need to heal my Pokemon so hurry on to Violet city, i can always come back.

BUT before i can get to the pokemon center, a bugcatcher with a weedle manages to poison ThaDude. So i use the psncurebery i found on the a bit earlyer to fix him up ill have to buy some antidotes later on. Unfortunately by the time i get back to the dark cave, ThaDude one shots the lvl 2 zubat i was trying to catch. bugger. Could have had 5 Pokemon by this point if id stop killing them...


I go to take on bellsprout tower before i head to the gym trying to give myself a head start. Both Thadude and Snappy are vulnerable to Grass type moves so i guess Its left on ferals shoulders to get us through here. First guy has 3 bellsprout, between the 3 of them they cost me 12 hp. This is gonna take a while. A few potions and quite a few dead bellsprouts later i get to the top just in time to see fapper beat the head honcho of the tower, And get the HM flash. he then escape ropes outta there. my sentrent is now level 10, my geodude is lvl 9 and tododile is lvl 10. I think im ready to beat this guy. then as i go to pick up an escape rope, I'm attacked by a Ghastly in the tower, Its technically the first wild Pokemon ive seen here so i capture it and name him Spook. (didn't have any attacks that could hurt it *sigh* but this
gives me a good chance against the bird gym now with 4 Pokemon.

Its a damn good thing i did catch Spook, cause this guy was strong. he nearly 1 shot ThaDude and Snappy (snappy saved by the berry) Spook put his bellsprouts to sleep
and Feral killed em, then snappy Raged until hoothoot was dead. Tough battle all Pokemon on low HP afterwards but still in the game.

After a bit of leveling the team is:
SPook: Lvl 8 Ghastly
ThaDude: Lvl 10 Geodude.
Snappy: Lvl 11 Tododile
Feral: Lvl 11 Sentret

Lick cant hurt normal types and its its olny move other then hypnosis, so he puts things to sleep then ThaDude beats the tar outta em. worked well for the first 2 trainers in the gym, but Falkner is a different kettle of fish. I head on to do some more leveling in a nearby grass patch


Falkner was tough, TheDude smashed his pidgey in 1 shot with a rock throw, but Pidgeotto was stronger and spamming sand attack and gust, Nearly killed him before i pulled him out, He didn't get a single attack off (thank you very much sand attack)
out in favor of Spook, who put it to sleep and using spite got rid of most of its PP for Gust, Then i switched out for Snappy whos rage managed to kill the bird
leaving him on 5 hp, I go back to the Pokemon center to get the EGG off the Aide and heal up.

As Team currently stands:
Spook - Lvl 10
ThaDude - Lvl 11
Snappy - Lvl 12
Feral - lvl 11
Egg - N/A

Team losses = 0.
Possible Pokemon caught: 6 + egg

To be continued. Stay tuned for chapter 2, The push to Azalea town.

[ssfgrgawer]

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Day 2 - Push To Azalea Town
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I head down route 32 and manage to capture a hoppip, Which i named Bug life,
unfortunately Hoppip has no actual attacks. Olny Splash, Synthesis and Tailwhip
This is gonna be a hard Pokemon to raise.

At level 10 it finally learnt Tackle, so i could use it to battle instead of switch
leveling. now it has tackle its quite effective, Synthesis helps keep it in the
game, a very important trait when a fainting means I gotta release the little
bugger. we proceed to level him up to lvl 13, as well as the rest of the team
Should make beating team rocket and Bugzy a breeze.

On the way down to union cave, some guy wants to sell me a slowpoke tail for
1,000,000 dollars. Like hell, i ain't got that kind of green on me. not that id
want it anyway. mom rings me to tell me she bought me something with my money.
On the plus side, some guy in the Pokemon center gave me an old rod. Magikarp
here i come.

IN union cave i caught a Sandshrew, Who i called TheShrew and outside of union
cave i caught a spearow who i called Birdbrain, inside slowpokecave i decided
to try my luck fishing, and caught, you guessed it, a magickarp. I named him
Mr Fish. I took birdbrain and TheShrew outta bills pc, To level them up to speed


Unfortunately while fishing for a magikarp or 2 to level up the lvl 6 TheShrew
and Lvl 6 birdbrain The shrew found a lvl 10 Goldeen who proceeded to confuse
and then take 70 percent of his hp with a horn attack, while he hurt himself
in the confusion, and fainted, So i had to switch Pokemon to avenge him but it
was too late to save him, Id had my first casualty

I decided to bring out Mr Fish to replace TheShrew since hes evolved form would
Be a big help later on. but leveling him now wasn't such an easy task.
Team rocket was pretty easy, Managing to level up Mr Fish to level 11, the only
one who gave me any trouble was the leader who had a lvl 14 koffing, nearly killed
snappy to kill him (now lvl 15)

While i was leveling Birdbrain, Togepi hatched, so i can shelf him and get a full
team back. I named him Eggy. Im sure fapper will show up soon, So i decided to
overhaul the team, and Level up everyone to 16, For MR Fish, this wasnt gonna be
easy.

[ssfgrgawer]

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Bugsy battle
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I pretty much mop up the whole gym with Birdbrain, after he hits lvl 16 i take on
Bugsy, Firstly i open with Bug life, Not overly strong at lvl 13, but with
poisonpowder he brings down Bugsys metapod with no worries at all, BUT Then Bugsys
kakuna poisons buglife, so i switch him out for birdbrain, Who one shots kakuna
and 2 shots his Syther with peck. He levels to lvl 17 on that one.

I leave the gym after healing Buglife of poison at the Pokemon center, ANd go take
on Fapper, He opens with a lvl 16 ghastly, which my Birdbrain pretty much 2 shots
he then sends out zubat, so i switch to ThaDude which rockthrows him into oblivion
but His bayleaf is lvl 16 and very strong, It one shots my geodude while i heal
birdbrain with a potion. one of the first members of my team lost at lvl 16.
birdbrain then proceeds to 3 shot bayleaf, but by then the damage is done.

I head back to the Pokemon center to release ThaDude, and Pull another Pokemon
outta the PC

The Team now:
Feral - Lvl 13
BirdBrain - lvl 17
Snappy - Lvl 16
Mr Fish - Lvl 12
Spook - lvl 16
Bug life - lvl 14

still quite a strong team, but ive a major weakness to grass atm, since the olny
one who can deal with grass pokemon well is birdbrain well and Feral half
decently. mr fish is soooo slowwww to level since i gotta switch level him. I
hope he learns tackle soon.


In Ilex forest, i caught a caterpie that i named Buggy, And just before Goldenrod
city i caught a drowsee that i named sleepmaker since he put my Feral to sleep
no less then 4 times.... Eventually, Mr Fish learnt tackle at lvl 15, and Feral
evolved into Furret at lvl 15 as well, We are getting a decent team built up

Then Tragedy strikes. a trainer on the northern side of Goldenrod city has a
maril with the move rollout, Who nearly kills Mr Fish and DOES kill Birdbrain,
so i just lost my only anti grass type, this is gonna make this much harder.

I decide Sleepmaker is probably more helpful then caterpie at the moment, so i
begin the grind to get him to lvl 16.



Saving to be continued.
Team as is:
Mr Fish - lvl 15
Feral - Lvl 15
snappy - Lvl 17
Bug life - Lvl 16
Spook - Lvl 17
Sleepmaker - lvl 10.

Not as strong as it was without my birdbrain, But Still quite a bit of hitting
power.

To be continued.

[david_k700]

I approve of this thread

[MechHead]

glad ur playing one of the original 6 otherwise id have no clue wtf u r talking about however i will say ur dedication to this thread is.. well.. creepy lol as the pokemon fad died while i was still in school over 10 yrs ago ( tho id be lying if i said i havent re played red and blue on my android w the gameboid emulator) (played yellow once too when i saw a "get mew and nidoking lvl 100 before gym 2 glitch")

curious, is it not cheating to use an emulator for the nuzlocke challenge since the clock is either perma stuck or hacked to be changeable yet never runs on its own

[ssfgrgawer]

glad ur playing one of the original 6 otherwise id have no clue wtf u r talking about however i will say ur dedication to this thread is.. well.. creepy lol as the pokemon fad died while i was still in school over 10 yrs ago ( tho id be lying if i said i havent re played red and blue on my android w the gameboid emulator) (played yellow once too when i saw a "get mew and nidoking lvl 100 before gym 2 glitch")

curious, is it not cheating to use an emulator for the nuzlocke challenge since the clock is either perma stuck or hacked to be changeable yet never runs on its own

clock still works fine for me, Mabey the version i have was cracked to work properly, But i just got it in a torrent of almost every pokemon game. not to mention clock based events dont really effect gameplay, Day/night rolling over is really all it changes in the early ones, Later ones more so, but eggs still hatch after x amount of steps ect.

Im hoping to update after i get back from dads.

[ssfgrgawer]

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GoldenRod City
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So at last id arrived at Goldenrod city, Popped into the Pokemon Center to heal up, And decided to do a bit of leveling since the last battle with Fapper nearly cost me a few key members, and The gym leaders Miltank with rollout can be a nasty thing to fight since there arnt many weaknesses to normal type pokemon, And Im running low on options.

i head up north, and in the grass below the national park i found and caught a Nidoran (male) that i named Horny (im running out of names lol). This could be a huge benefit to my team if i can get him up to Nidorino/Nidoking later on in the game, he will make a strong hitter.

After a grueling leveling regime:


Mr Fish leveled up to lvl 20 and he FINALLY evolved


So with this new found firepower i hope to make quick work of Whitney's Normal type gym.

I do a bit of leveling in the grass, and after about 1-2 hours the team looks like this:
Mr Fish - Lvl 20 with a massive 61 attack stat, its gonna be a thumpa jumpa. Mid to high 40s in defense, SpDef and speed helps too.
Feral - Lvl 20 - The now evolved furret is still a good hitter for me at this point, with mid 40s attack and speed hes nothing special, but still a nice addition to the team
Snappy - Lvl 20 - Now a Croconaw, His mid 40s attack and defense are nice, but Spatk and Spdef are lacking a bit in the mid 30s.
Bug Life - Lvl 20 - Now a skiploom her stats arent too nice, with speed being the only stat over 40, but spDef and Defence arn't too far behind, Possible tank?
Spook - Lvl 20 - with a large 48 spAtk stat, as soon as it learns more attacks then "lick" he will be a hard hitter
and Horny - Lvl 14 - Bit of catching up to do, But im still yet to enter the national park, So might get some training in there and in route 36,

Or should i save route 36's catch for sudowodo? Choices choices, The tree would add some rarity to my team, but im kinda hoping i find a growlite in route 36, to give me a fire type to cover one of my major weaknesses at the moment: grass/bug/poison types, plus a fire type would make jasmines steel gym a bit further up the road in Olivane Town.

In any case, while im in town i might as well Stop by the bike shop and get myself some wheels, God olny knows every 10 year old needs a bike, Walking is so 1994.


SSNOTE: Any pictures are not done by ssf, and are likely stolen from here:
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/ar...comic/04262010

[ssfgrgawer]

It was night time by the time i made it to the park, Laaaammeeee Guess who found a hoothoot, ah well a back up is a backup i spose. plus now i cant find one in route 36, Which is a nice plus.


and thank god i did, I walk out to route 36, and mop the floor with the smuck in between me and the grass patch, First up in the grass patch i find a nidoran male, (already got it - reroll), Then a hoothoot (already got it - Reroll) And then i find a lvl 13 growlithe, So i use 1 scratch to weaken it, then chuck a great ball (not wanting it to use ROAR and scare me away) and catch it!! I name Growlithe Dogalog, Since i like that name for a dog. time to work on leveling it and Horny and prepare to take on Whitney.


Whitney fight:
So i go in with this lineup:
Dogalog - Lvl 19
Mr Fish - Lvl 20
Snappy - Lvl 21
bug life - Lvl 21
Horny - Lvl 19
Spook - Lvl 20
Horney levels to lvl 20 on the trainer just before Whitney, so we have a strong force to take her on with.

Dogalog bites and Embers till snubbul faints, And then i switch to horny to take on miltank, Its a tough cookie, But Hornys Double kick rips face on normal types and with a super effective double kick to the face Whitney's Miltank faints and she starts bawling like a little baby. Pwnt. That was only half my horn.

I talk to her again and Get the badge after she stops bloody crying, duck next door to grab the squirtbottle and Then run off to fight sudowodo whom i cant catch, But hey, Good exp, He nearly one shots Dogalog (Damn you Rock weakness) so i pull him out with 5 hp to spare, and let Mr Fish Deal with it, A few bites and the smart alec tree is fainted, Ain't nobody mess with the fish. I run back to violet city to heal (so i don't have to go through the park) and start heading towards Ecruteak. Ghost/psychic gym, so normal types are useless here. Oh boy :/

I leave the town plus a coin purse, Bike and quite a few pokeballs as well as the squirtbottle, Now if olny i can remember where to get the better fishing rod....