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"...to catch them is my real test. To train them is my cause~ ♪♫"
(http://imgur.com/paFHqjT.jpg)
*intense music starts playing*
Welcome to my first blind Emerald Nuzlocke!
I embarked on a new adventure with the rules of a Nuzlocke game, but the twist is that I never played Emerald before. I don't know which trainers pose a threat and where the grind points are, so I'll just make sure that my Pokémons are always combat-ready.
I don't know if there will be any followers, but view this project as a youtube channel. You can subscribe by following my journey and you can also leave your comments below. I will keep updating the thread as I go on, and maybe I'll learn how to stream and edit videos. The main point is that I have fun. ^^ Feel free to start a game parallel with me so we can both have fun. ;)
Here are my special rules for this runthrough:
Many points were transferred from my Diamond Nuzlocke rules. I don't know if there will be fossils, breeding and dual battles, but it's the best to be prepared for anything.~
- The starter Pokémon must be randomly chosen with a 6-sided dice.
- Every Pokémon must be given a nickname.
- In every new area, only the first encountered Pokémon can be caught. If the first encountered Pokémon dies or runs away, you fail to get a Pokémon from there.
- Exception: No duplicates. If the first encountered Pokémon is already present in your team, you can choose to run away again and again until you find one you don't have. The Pokémon who you don't want to catch must not die or flee before you can run away.
- If you already caught a Pokémon in an area, that area is off-limits for catching new Pokémon in the future.
- If a Pokémon faints, it is considered dead and has to be released.
- If the first encounter is a 2-vs-2 battle, you are free to decide which Pokémon you want to catch.
- NPC trades are allowed.
- If all 6 Pokémon in your party faints, the game is over and you lost, even if you had reserves in the PC.
- Healing and buff items cannot be used in battle. All healing and equipment must be applied outside battle.
- You can equip and change your Pokémon's items, but only outside battle.
- Legendary, Ultra Rare and Shiny Pokémons can be caught, but only as trophies if catching them would be otherwise illegal.
- Only the first found fossil can be revived and used.
- Any amount of eggs can be hatched, but only one can be used. If one hatched Pokémon already entered a battle, all other hatched and unhatched eggs must be released/stored.
- If the game accidently crashes, you don't have to reproduce your previous run since your last save. Play by the normal rules again.
- Dead Pokémon can be used on the world map for using HMs. Dead HM slaves can avoid being released, but they must not be switched into battle.
- If the plot heals up a dead Pokémon who was in the first slot and then carries you right into a new battle, you can use it to absorb some hits, but it must not attack or change stats of the opponent.
- Legendary Pokémons must not be caught with a Master Ball if there is more than 1 Pokémon alive in your party.
- If something is ambiguous because of unexpected game mechanics, the rules should be updated.
So let's load up the game and start with our adventure! Special thanks to Coffeeditto for the Emerald version! :D (I only played with Diamond before)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/184/d/d/ditto___the_transform_pokemon__by_realscyler-d7p1jy3.png) "You're welcome, Sub!"
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(http://imgur.com/MDV1Kqn.jpg) We're starting off strong. Noone has died yet, yaaay~
After the the intro sequence, I was introduced to the professor of the game. Apparently I will be watched over by Professor Birch.
But uh oh, what's this? We don't even have a gender and a name yet! :-X
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
(http://pre06.deviantart.net/4777/th/pre/f/2014/160/4/5/pokemon_omega_ruby___alpha_sapphire___brendan_by_kiraga_neko-d7lmeus.png)(http://pre01.deviantart.net/aea1/th/pre/f/2014/159/d/8/pokemon_omega_ruby___alpha_sapphire___may_artwork_by_kiraga_neko-d7lhivt.png)
I'm gonna pick boy for my first run. I can mess with May later. :P
I would lie if I said I didn't take a long time to pick a name. In Pokémon Diamond, I would usually go as 'NuzLock', but this time I'm doing this public, so I need a more presentable name. The characters are limited to 7, so there goes my idea to become NuzMachine. T-T
I almost became NuzLife when a name came to my mind and I finally stuck with it.
"Welcome to the Pokémon realm, Reynold. Let your adventure begin."
For everyone's convenience, I skip the following part until we get to our first actual plot or pokémon battle.~
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Looking forward to this. To me, Emerald was one of the best editions of Pokémon, especially because of the complex and well built Battle Frontier. I could never restart it, though.
(If you don't want me to spam here, just pm me and I'll delete it.)
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If it wasn't Emerald, I'm not sure if I would follow it
But it is Emerald
Thus, I will follow it
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If it wasn't Emerald, I'm not sure if I would follow it
But it is Emerald
Thus, I will follow it
Logic here is solid ^
Following as well.
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After Reynold and his family moved in their new house, we learned that our father is a famous gym leader. What a twist! Mother tells us that professor Birch who lives next door is actually a good friend of father, so we are asked to introduce ourselves to him. But when I visit his home, instead of Birch we meet his daughter, May. She tells us that his father is doing some fieldwork, so we go after him. What a hassle to just introduce ourselves to our neighbours, huh?
But what's this? Professor Birch is attacked by wild Pokémon! :o He's shouting for our help.
"Quick! There are pokéballs in that bag. Choose one and help me!"
(http://pokecharms.com/data/attachment-files/2014/06/94050_Treecko_Torchic_Mudkip_Group_layersremoved.png)
This is it! Time to get my starter Pokémon. I'm gonna roll a normal 6-sided dice to decide.
1 or 4 = Treecko
2 or 5 = Torchic
3 or 6 = Mudkip
The dice rolls and it stops at the number 3. Welcome to the team, Mudkip! :)
(http://snag.gy/uDWYA.jpg)
The level 2 Poochyena stands no chance. After rescuing the professor, he gives us Mudkip not only to show his gratitude, but because he heard from our father that we don't have any pokémon yet. What a nice guy! I already like this guy.
"Do you want to give a nickname to Mudkip?"
Of course. But now comes the tricky part. Usually I follow some basic guidelines when I give nicknames, unless a more suitable name comes to my mind:
- The given nickname must fit to the Pokémon's gender.
- The given nickname should start with the caught Pokémon's first letter.
- The given nickname should fit to all evolution states. (so I can't use Kipper as a nickname, even if it perfectly suits Mudkip ^^")
I'm not entirely sure what Mudkip evolves into, but I know how he will look, so I can't use a simple cute name. But it also cannot be only intimidating, because then it wouldn't fit Mudkip on his first evolution level. After some thinking, I finally figured it out.
(http://snag.gy/N0Sfa.jpg)
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Here I will keep track of which areas are off-limits to catch new pokémon.
| Littleroot Town (starter pokémon) | MYRIONITE | Mudkip |
| Route 101 | killed | Wurmple |
| Route 103 | killed | Poochyena |
| Route 202 | LIPLOP | Lotad |
| Route 104 | PANDORA | Poochyena |
| Petalburg Woods | SPORE | Shroomish |
| Route 116 | TURBULANCE | Taillow |
| Rusturf Tunnel | WILSON | Whismur |
| Granite Cave | ARGOR | Abra |
| Route 110 | EXODIA | Electrike |
| Route 117 | MICHAEL | Marill |
| Route 111 | GOYLE | Geodude |
| Route 112 | MAINERIE | Marill |
| Fiery Path | TERAFUZE | Torkoal |
| Route 113 | SPOOLE | Spinda |
| Route 114 | SWOOSH | Swablu |
| Meteor Falls | SOLARIS | Solrock |
| Jagged Path | NAMIRA | Numel |
| Mirage Tower | TRIPLETRAP | Trapinch |
| Fossil (Rustboro City) | ANUBIS | Anorith |
| New Mauville | VORTEX | Voltorb |
| Route 118 | LIANEE | Linoone |
| Route 119 | killed | Zigzagoon |
| Weather Institute (Route 119?) | CHELL | Castform |
| Route 120 | SPRING | Seedot |
| Route 121 | SHINIGAMI | Shuppet |
| Safari Zone | NESTRA | Natu |
| Lilycove City | MARKUS | Magikarp |
| Route 123 | | |
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Personally, back in the days I played Emerald (not Nuzlocke, obv, since back then I didn't knew Nuzlocke run even exists), I used a theme of nicknames. So, for example, I might pick 'Frederick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor)', 'Richard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England)', and 'Philip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_France)' if I wanted the boys have a nickname that have something to do with the Third Crusade.
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I forgot why, but we are supposed to find May on Route 103, so I leave Littleroot Town for the first time. I'm on Route 101 now and I'm already facing a dilemma. This looks like the only way to Route 103, but it's swamped with tall grass and I have no pokéballs yet. The basic rules I set to myself say that if I encounter a Pokémon in an area and I fail to catch it, then that area will be off-limits to catch new pokémon from then on.
Let's take any chance we got! Rush through the tall grass in the shortest possible path and hope that we won't encounter anyone.
But then this guy happened:
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/76/265Wurmple.png/250px-265Wurmple.png)
So here I am, fighting a level 2 Wurmple who I can't even catch. Running would be pointless, I already lost this little fella, so I might as well train MYRIONITE a bit. When the fight ended, Route 101 remained forever lost. RIP Wurmple. :(
After the unfortunate encounter, I finally reach Oldale Town, and with that, my first Pokémon Center. Time to pack up with Pokéballs and do a training montage! Now that MYRIONITE takes the place of 2 Pokémon, he has to be extra tough.
What kind of Pokémart is that where they don't sell Pokéballs though? We're looking forward to a great start, huh. xD They had a pointless questionnaire though, which is hardly a questionnaire. I just needed to put 4 random phrases on the paper. In reflection of what happened, I came up with the following non-sense:
| MUDKIP | COME ON |
| ATTACK | WURMPLE |
Reynold finally reaches Route 103. I could finally see May in the distance, but again, there are 6 tall grass patches blocking my way. I still don't know why the Oldale pokémart refused to sell me any pokéballs yet, but 6 patches are not so big deal. I just need to be fairly lucky to avoid any encounter.
I only walked 2 tiles, but it's already time for a fight again. Are you kidding me, game?
(http://pre08.deviantart.net/e07e/th/pre/i/2013/207/1/a/261_poochyena_by_pklucario-d6f8odx.png)
We're clearly off to a great start. xD This Poochyena barely stands more chance than the one who attacked Birch. Two pokémon already dead, and that means two off-limit areas where I can't catch any new pokémon. RIP Poochyena. :(
(http://snag.gy/fDgjd.jpg)
MYRIONITE grew to Level 6!
MYRIONITE learned Mud Slap!
After a small grind, I finally reach May and talk to her. I totally forgot why we had to find her, so I'm actually curious what she wants.
Oh, she wants to fight! First Boss Battle: Pokémon Trainer May.
A Level 5 Treecko shows up before my Level 9 Mudkip. You might have the type advantage, May, but I have the higher level pokémon! Awesome rival music goes in the background, which reminds me of that remix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPbl6o9mGEs) I once heard on youtube. The battle rages, but MYRIONITE stands his ground. After a series of serious tackles, MYRIONITE emerges victorious.
(http://snag.gy/B4rze.jpg)
Ok, fight's over. What now? I still don't remember why I needed to find you. Aren't you supposed to give me my pokéballs now? Where the hell are you going? o_O Don't leave me here without pokéballs! May... ? ._. ... Great start, ten outta ten. xD
I'll update the story later, after I found out what I need to do.
End of Day party stats:
| (http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150109033727/pokemon/images/b/ba/258Mudkip_Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Red_and_Blue_Rescue_Teams.png) | Lv.9 MYRIONITE, the Mudkip (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud-Slap | |
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Personally, back in the days I played Emerald (not Nuzlocke, obv, since back then I didn't knew Nuzlocke run even exists), I used a theme of nicknames. So, for example, I might pick 'Frederick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor)', 'Richard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England)', and 'Philip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_France)' if I wanted the boys have a nickname that have something to do with the Third Crusade.
That's a good idea too. :) I'd like to stick with my original guidelines for the first time, though. I wonder what names I can come up with this way. ^^"
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After backtracking for a while, I finally figured out where I needed to go. I just had to visit my old pal Birch, then things sped up significantly. Just in 2 minutes, I received a new Pokédex, 5 Pokéballs (Finally!) and new running shoes.
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/1/1f/Pokedex_FRLG.png/revision/latest?cb=20100717083156)
Pokédex | (http://img11.deviantart.net/3491/i/2011/236/7/6/5_pokeballs_by_rgmt94-d47ou52.jpg)
5 Pokéballs | (http://www.freevector.com/site_media/preview_images/FreeVector-Nike-Shoes-Vector.jpg)
Running Shoes |
After I received my Pokéballs, I already knew where I needed to go to catch my first Pokémon. Route 202 opened up and after circling in the tall grass for a bit, I found my second potential teammate.
(http://snag.gy/T8K5b.jpg)
This Lotad was very low level, so Tackle was a no-go. It was kinda obvious that Lotad is water type, so I felt safe to hit her with a few Mud-Slaps. After some Growls and Mud-Slaps, I was ready to throw my first pokéball.
"Lotad was caught! :D Do you want to give Lotad a nickname?"
Sure I do. Let's call her LIPLOP. It sounds like a cheerful name for this little fella. I'm not really sure how I feel about you yet, LIPLOP, because I already have a water type pokémon in my team, but seeing that you are a dual grass type, I think that you might be more useful than MYRIONITE in specific battles.
After farting around for a bit in the new town after Route 202 (which I forgot the name of), I finally found the gym where our dad is the gym leader. I expected a battle here, but he says that we are scrubs and not worthy to challenge him before we get at least 4 gym badges. Thanks a lot, dad. Great parenting. ^^"
But wait, who's this new scrub? He doesn't even have any pokémons yet!
A boy called Wally comes to the gym leader and asks for a pokémon. But instead of giving him a new pokémon for real, dad lent Wally a Lv.7 Zigzagoon to help him catch another one. A level 7 Zigzagoon from a gym leader. Who's the scrub now, dad? I have higher level pokémons than you.
"Reynold, go with Wally and show him how to catch Pokémon."
(http://imgur.com/BYqJkRu.jpg)(http://imgur.com/fobyd0z.jpg)(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e1/280Ralts.png/250px-280Ralts.png)
So we had to go with Wally to catch a Lv.5 Ralts for him, but because I didn't need to do anything at all, I have a slight suspicion that it was actually the game making you learn how to use pokéballs. I already caught LIPLOP, so this part was a waste of time for me. After all of this was done, Wally gave dad back his Zigzagoon and expressed his thanks. He then ran away to do stuff with his new Ralts.
I already know that it was not the last time we saw him...
After pilfering exploring this town, we were told to head to Rustboro, where the gym leader is called Roxanne. Between this town and Rustboro, two new areas followed each other, which meant two new pokémon! I was excited to see what pokémon I get. :)
Long story short, here is what I came across:
(http://pre08.deviantart.net/e07e/th/pre/i/2013/207/1/a/261_poochyena_by_pklucario-d6f8odx.png)(http://orig05.deviantart.net/9c6c/f/2013/227/7/c/285_shroomish_by_pklucario-d6iaeff.png)
I was happy for Poochyena, because a Normal type pokémon is a blessing in a Nuzlocke if you lack the correct type advantages with everything else. However, I wass less happy when I had to give a nickname to said Poochyena, because I had no idea what name should I give to a female hyena that is suitable and starts with a P. In the end, I gave her the name PANDORA, because reasons. (reasons that were heavily affected by greek culture and Harry Potter 3)
Shroomish is our typical Grass-Poison dual type that we have in every game. In Diamond, we had Roselia, and in the first gen, we had Bellsprout. Just as with LIPLOP, he already covers a type that I already have, but the poison type is something new that can come handy later. I had less problems with giving a nickname this time. From now on, Shroomish shall be called SPORE.
In Petalburg Woods, where I caught SPORE, I found a guy who was looking for the pokémon Shroomish. I expected him to be one of those trainers who give you stuff if you show them the correct pokémon, so I got excited for a minute there.
"Not so fast! Team Aqua here, you're under attack."
(http://t3.rbxcdn.com/5c387523c87aade0ecb287f3a361e06e)
A Team Aqua grunt ambushed the guy (who was apparently a scientist) and demanded some research papers. So instead of Team Rocket and Team Galactic, we have Team Aqua now, huh. I easily beat the guy's level 9 Poochyena. He then grumbles for a while, tells us where Team Aqua is going to show up next time and runs away. The scientist then concludes:
"Whew, that was awfully close."
Except that it wasn't. I had it under control. But at least he gave me a Great Ball as a sign of his gratitude. And I didn't even need to show him my Shroomish. ^^"
Before I got to Rustboro city, it was time for another training montage!
I didn't have to wait much until SPORE learned Stun Spore. Every time he uses that move, I giggle a bit. x) It's like naming your pokémon "Oh, he" to see the game say "Oh, he levelled up!" or "Oh, he learned a new move!".
A little bit later, when I got challenged by Bug Catcher James, I sent out LIPLOP against a Nincada. My lack of knowledge was shining here, but I assumed from its looks that Nincada is a Bug type pokémon. However, when Water Gun turned out to be super effective against him, I became curious what type Nincada is. Maybe Nincada is a rock type pokémon? Feel free to answer this in the comments. I'm very curious.
After a healthy grinding, I finally arrived in Rustboro city. I quickly receive the Hidden Move "Cut" and learn that Roxanne, the Rustboro gym leader is a master of Rock type pokémon. Maybe I'll learn here more about Nincada.
One thing is for sure, the tutors of this gym are very hip:
(http://snag.gy/DcHyt.jpg)
End of Day party stats:
| (http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150109033727/pokemon/images/b/ba/258Mudkip_Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Red_and_Blue_Rescue_Teams.png) | Lv.14 MYRIONITE, the Mudkip (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud-Slap | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://imgur.com/vi9UI5T.jpg) | Lv.10 LIPLOP, the Lotad (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Astonish | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | |
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| (http://pre08.deviantart.net/e07e/th/pre/i/2013/207/1/a/261_poochyena_by_pklucario-d6f8odx.png) | Lv.8 PANDORA, the Poochyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl | | |
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| | (http://orig05.deviantart.net/9c6c/f/2013/227/7/c/285_shroomish_by_pklucario-d6iaeff.png) | Lv.10 SPORE, the Shroomish (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| (http://forums.windowscentral.com/attachments/nokia-glance-backgrounds/45742d1381464991t-pokeball-glance.png) | (http://forums.windowscentral.com/attachments/nokia-glance-backgrounds/45742d1381464991t-pokeball-glance.png) |
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Nincada is a Bug/Ground dual type.
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Nincada is a Bug/Ground dual type.
Ah, alright. That makes sense.
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Poochyena is a Dark-type, not a Normal type. ;)
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What I'm posting now happened 2 days ago. Since then, I didn't make any progress yet. The good news is that you can watch the following battles online now (special thanks to MeowMeowCat for showing how to record them). Click the following link if you want to watch the video:
https://youtu.be/kCW6-cc_Apc
Reynold finally entered Roxanne's gym! We already know that this will be a Rock type gym, which is interesting, because I think we haven't seen any rock type pokémon yet (especially now that Nincada is confirmed not to be one). I wanted to get through all the gym trainers with LIPLOP and SPORE, because I was sure that MYRIONITE will do fine against Roxanne's strongest pokémon.
Alright, first gym trainer! What do you got?
(http://imgur.com/aMQCBuu.jpg)
Looks like he only has 1 Geodude, but this Geodude is the same level as my weakest pokémon. This is a bit troubling, because I thought that my team is overlevelled, and if I know anything about Gym Leaders, it's that their pokémons are ~5 levels higher than their gym trainers' pokémons. I didn't let this faze me though, so I kept going. I was looking forward to face another trainer, but I accidently ran into a double battle. What did I face?
(http://imgur.com/aMQCBuu.jpg)(http://imgur.com/aMQCBuu.jpg)(http://imgur.com/aMQCBuu.jpg)(http://imgur.com/aMQCBuu.jpg)
These were only lv.8 Geodudes, so it wasn't so bad. After this, there was only one more opponent left.
First Gym Battle: Leader Roxanne!
(http://33.media.tumblr.com/5769432bcfb4eaae75b2f4605429b62d/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko1_r2_400.gif)
"Would you kindly demonstrate how you battle, and with which pokémon?"
I was getting strong Bioshock vibes from this. First Pokémon matchup: Lv.12 LIPLOP vs Lv.12 GEODUDE. LIPLOP managed to slay 2/3 of GEODUDE's full HP with a first turn Absorb, but damn these GEODUDES have high Attack stats. After it hit LIPLOP once, not only did LIPLOP lose half of her HP, but her speed also fell. I didn't want to risk another attack, so I switched to SPORE.
SPORE endured GEODUDE's attacks much better than LIPLOP did. He managed to take down the first Geodude with almost full HP. It looks like LIPLOP has low Defense stats, so she and PANDORA probably won't see much action in this battle. Second matchup: Lv.11 SPORE vs Lv.12 GEODUDE. This one went much smoother, resulting in SPORE winning with full HP.
This is it then, her final pokémon. It's time to send out MYRIONITE and see what Roxanne's last pokémon is!
(I really hoped it's not another GEODUDE >_< This gym was 7 GEODUDES so far, so the last pokémon had to be something different.)
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/299.png)
Third Pokémon Matchup: Lv.14 MYRIONITE vs Lv.15 NOSEPASS. Nosepass, huh. Not what I expected. But wait. When I was battling in real time, I didn't even notice that MYRIONITE was lower level than Nosepass! I only noticed it now that I looked back the footage. It might explain why Water Gun only took down a third of its full HP. After realizing how hardcore Nosepass is, I changed strategies. I started attacking him with Mud-Slap, which might be weak, but it's super-effective, but most importantly it lowers accuracy! Roxanne's GEODUDES all knew 'Rock Tomb' earlier, which I know from playing Pokémon Diamond that it has ~75% base hitrate (give or take). I wanted to make sure that her most powerful attack can't hit me, so Mud-Slap seemed to be the most logical next step.
Two Mud-Slaps later though, Nosepass was able to hit MYRIONITE with Rock Tomb, not only chipping down a third of his HP, but also slowing him down. But wait, Roxanne's turn was not over yet! NOSEPASS started sparkling.
"Oh my god, what the hell is happening? Is she going to deal even more damage? Is she going to heal? Does Nosepass have a secret special ability? She already attacked this turn, so it can't be one of her moves, right?"
I panicked here, not knowing what's going to happen.
NOSEPASS used its berry to heal.
Okay, so that was just the berry animation in Emerald. I was afraid of something worse, so after this relief, I decided to play it even safer and used Growl. I also managed to use Mud-Slap once more, trying to make sure that I wouldn't get hit again with Rock Tomb.
But then came the catastrophe that I didn't foresee at all!
NOSEPASS used Block! When I first saw this, I thought: "Oh, this is that move that blocks your last used attack. So I can't use Growl. Not a big deal." But then I saw this: "MYRIONITE can't switch out from battle!". After I read this, I got really worried. I confused this move with something else. Will I lose my starter pokémon right out of the gate? I had to start attacking for real. I used Water Gun. Luckily she used Tackle next instead of Rock Tomb, which dealt only 5 damage to me. Nosepass' HP was down to the Red Zone, so I expected one last healing. It turned out that the 2 Potions she used for her GEODUDES previously was her only healing sources, so I could successfully deliver the finishing blow! Well done, MYRIONITE! :)
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Oh wow, losing Myrionite would've been devestating.
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Emerald happens to be my favorite of the non-spin-off Pokemon games. Following :)
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Hehe Sub, bless the KI's stupidity.
Well done, congratz to your first badge!
Btw, Nosepass is one of a few Rock-types that has a pretty good Special Defense, that's why it took your water attack so well.
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Hehe Sub, bless the KI's stupidity.
Well done, congratz to your first badge!
Btw, Nosepass is one of a few Rock-types that has a pretty good Special Defense, that's why it took your water attack so well.
Thanks! :) In case I face a Nosepass again in the future, I'll keep its high Special Defense in mind.
I also don't know why I believed so firmly that Poochyena is Normal type. It was not even an assumption, I just thought that I knew it for sure. ^^" Looks like I learn something new every day. :)
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With Roxanne's gym badge in my pocket, I headed to the nearest PokéCenter to heal. On my way though, the game stopped me and I heard shouting.
(http://snag.gy/2Sr1x.jpg)
I got worried that a plot battle was coming, because I didn't have time to heal my pokémons yet. Luckily it was just a cutscene, though. A Team Aqua grunt stole some "DEVON goods" from the scientist we met in the forest before. The cutscene included the scientist chasing the thief towards North, hinting where we needed to go next. After I healed, I had to go through Route 116 and Rusturf Tunnel to find that rascal. Those were both new areas, which meant 2 new potential teammates! :D
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/276.png)(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/6c/293Whismur.png/250px-293Whismur.png)
I'm gonna now tell you the story of a wild Taillow and a wild Whismur. Did I catch them? Keep reading to find out!
I encountered the wild Taillow on Route 116. He and MYRIONITE had an epic Growl battle, like a battle of Harden between 2 Metapods. After an unnecessarily long stat reduction, I finally threw a Pokéball which caught me a new Taillow. ^^ This Taillow is now a highly valued team member, because so far I had nothing to counter the vast amount of Grass Type pokémons which surrounded me. To reflect his value, I had to give him an epic name.
(http://snag.gy/fCrv5.jpg)
The Team Aqua grunt I was hunting fled into Rusturf Tunnel, which was foggy as hell. I was 1 tile away from challenging him when I was challenged by a wild Whismur. He was an easy catch, considering that he was only level 6. I haven't heard of this pokémon before, so I had no idea if he evolves, and if he does, what he evolves into. So I just went with a generic male nickname: WILSON. (I almost called him willng3) With WILSON, my team was finally full. :)
After catching WILSON, it was finally time to beat the Aqua grunt and get on with the plot.
I have to admit, that Team Aqua battle theme song is also kinda catchy, but the Rival theme remains my favorite.
(http://snag.gy/VbkLB.jpg) (http://snag.gy/LDYvK.jpg)
Beating him was easy, he only had a lv.10 Poochyena, which stood no chance against MYRIONITE. After the battle ended, some stuff happened.~
MYRIONITE is finally evolving! :o YES! \:D/
(http://snag.gy/MR7eF.jpg) (http://snag.gy/QVgUk.jpg)
He also wanted to learn Mud Shot, so I had to make him forget Mud-Slap, which I was a bit sad about, because it was his MVP move against Roxanne.
I'd also like to note here that even though my team is full, nobody is able to learn Cut. Which is a shame.
(http://snag.gy/Xv4fT.jpg)
Now back to the plot. After recovering the "DEVON goods", the president of the Devon Company assigned Reynold to a new mission with a (compulsory) side-quest. The mission was to deliver an important package to Slateport City, and the side-quest was to deliver a letter to Dewford Town on my way to Slateport. They warned me that not only Team Aqua, but also Team Magma will try to stop me. This is the first time they mentioned Team Magma in the game, so I was getting curious. They seemed to be sleeping so far. So in order to convince me, the Devon president gave me a PokéNav, which is like a phone, except that it's a map...
"This stuff doesn't even make sense."
On my way out of the facility, I was talking to some scientists. One of them invented a machine that can resurrect fossils to Pokémons, so fossils confirmed! ;)
I was on my way to the nearest PokéCenter when I ran past a familiar character. It was May, my neighbour rival. It looks like the game now gives you a chance to refuse rival battles if you are not prepared, which is kind of a letdown considering that random rival battles are the most thrilling parts of Blind Nuzlockes. I was almost in perfect shape though, so I instantly accepted the challenge!
Second Rival Battle: Pokémon Trainer May!
"The girl had only 2 Pokémons though."
(http://snag.gy/c4uOD.jpg)
That's right. She only had a buffed Wingull and her unevolved starter, Treecko. I have to admit though, Wingull put up a good fight. The move "Wing Attack" has awesome animations in Emerald compared to the lackluster feather animation in Diamond. I also didn't have anything to counter Flying types at this point, while half of my team was susceptible to Flying type attacks, which added to the challenge a bit. But in the end, it was still an easy fight.
PLOT JUMP again! I finally arrived in Dewford Town, where I received an Old Rod from an unknown fisherman. So I could finally fish in towns! :D For the record, usually when I was in a losing position in Diamond, I went back to towns I explored earlier and looked for ponds to fish in, because each town is technically a new area, where one new pokémon can be caught. But since most of the time it's just a Magikarp, I only use this strategy as a last resort.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/31/Key_Super_Rod_Sprite.png)
The local townspeople kept blabbering about a new trend called "AMUSING DIGITAL", but if I have any clue what this might mean, I think it's just a thing I can reply to interviewers. This phrase might also change daily, but I didn't test it yet. My next (and only available) area was Granite Cave.
I wanted to end the episode here and almost did, but then something AMAZING happened!
Well, at least amazing to me. Because I'm the one who's playing, lol. :P
I didn't really think about what I was doing, I just ran inside the cave to explore it a bit. Little did I know, I encountered a wild Abra. An Abra, from all the possible things. I already got lucky on Route 116 to avoid these guys, because they also spawned there quite often. If you are new to Pokémon, an Abra is a Psychic type pokémon who, if you don't catch or kill it on the first turn, uses Teleport and flees. Killing him would have been pointless, so my only option was to fling my strongest available Pokéball at it and hope for the best. So I did that, threw a Great Ball at him. You might already know how the story ended based on my initial excitement.
(http://snag.gy/BDuCr.jpg) (http://snag.gy/yUNkR.jpg)
Done and done! Wild Abra was caught. 8) This guy will live by the name ARGOR from now on. Once he evolves into Kadabra, there will be no stopping for us. (Kadabra was probably my favorite pokémon to use in Pokémon Diamond. That might change here, considering that this Abra was not received via NPC trade, though. [NPC traded pokémons get boosted experience compared to all other pokémon.] We'll see~)
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.17 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://imgur.com/vi9UI5T.jpg) | Lv.13 LIPLOP, the Lotad (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Astonish | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Flash | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Nature Power |
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| (http://pre08.deviantart.net/e07e/th/pre/i/2013/207/1/a/261_poochyena_by_pklucario-d6f8odx.png) | Lv.11 PANDORA, the Poochyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack | |
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| | (http://orig05.deviantart.net/9c6c/f/2013/227/7/c/285_shroomish_by_pklucario-d6iaeff.png) | Lv.13 SPORE, the Shroomish (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| (http://resource.pokemon-project.com/Taillow/FLASH%20-%20Taillow%20Vuelo%20Superior.png) | Lv.17 TURBULANCE, the Taillow (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Wing Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Focus Energy | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/6c/293Whismur.png/250px-293Whismur.png) | Lv.6 WILSON, the Whismur (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Pound | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Uproar | | |
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ARGOR was transferred to the PC.
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wow, is always nice find new pokemon fans
gl for the nuzlocke
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For public knowledge, even though most people interested in this will know, Whismur is involved in a 3 part evolution chain of Whismur -> Loudred -> Exploud.
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I got so busy with catching new pokémon that I forgot why I even came to Dewford Town in the first place. First things first, there is a new gym in this area! The Leader's name is Brawly, who's a user of Fighting type pokémon. I did see some wild Makuhitas in Granite Cave, so I definitely expect Brawly to have at least one of them.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/2/23/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Brawly.png/145px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Brawly.png)
Granite Cave looked like the perfect training place, because it had low level Fighting type pokémons which can be easily one-shot killed by TURBULANCE's Wing Attack. When I reached the deepest level though, I was reminded of the plot again. There I found the guy who I needed to deliver the DEVON president's letter, who gave me the TM Steel Wing in exchange for the delivery. I'm not really a fan of that move, but maybe it will see its uses later.
Back to the training, holy cow this cave have lots of Abras, Sableyes and Arons, but I only remember seeing a single Geodude. I think that Geodudes should have been more frequent, unless they are supposed to be rare encounters, which I doubt.
My next update will probably include the result of my second gym leader fight. I have a simple strategy planned: TURBULANCE will take care of the strongest ones, while SPORE and hopefully ARGOR will be able to take care of the weaker ones. I still have to teach ARGOR anything else than Teleport though. He's already level 13 and he still hasn't learned anything new, not even Kinesis. The plan is to level him up until he can learn Confusion. If that fails, I'll just level up SPORE a bit more.
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.18 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://imgur.com/vi9UI5T.jpg) | Lv.13 LIPLOP, the Lotad (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Astonish | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Flash | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Nature Power |
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| (http://pre08.deviantart.net/e07e/th/pre/i/2013/207/1/a/261_poochyena_by_pklucario-d6f8odx.png) | Lv.11 PANDORA, the Poochyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack | |
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| | (http://orig05.deviantart.net/9c6c/f/2013/227/7/c/285_shroomish_by_pklucario-d6iaeff.png) | Lv.13 SPORE, the Shroomish (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| (http://resource.pokemon-project.com/Taillow/FLASH%20-%20Taillow%20Vuelo%20Superior.png) | Lv.20 TURBULANCE, the Taillow (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Wing Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double Team | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Focus Energy | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack |
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| | (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/0/02/063Abra_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20131224023304) | Lv.13 ARGOR, the Abra (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Teleport | | | |
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Reynold was finally ready to face Brawly, the Fighting-type gym leader. These gym leader names are full of puns, by the way. Brawly's name is a synonym of fighting, while Roxanne's name was a butchered version of Rocks Anne. Before I entered the gym though, I decided to do another training montage.
ARGOR was very stubborn at learning anything. He was raised from around level 9 to level 15 and he still didn't learn anything else than Teleport. I was about to give up, but the ice finally broke when he reached Lv.16.
(http://snag.gy/uglvw.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Bg8L1.jpg) (http://snag.gy/5Em7k.jpg)
ARGOR was finally ready to take on Brawly!
Other than that, we had another unexpected evolution today.
(http://snag.gy/DncHO.jpg) (http://snag.gy/3uwTf.jpg)
LIPLOP evolved when she hit Lv.14. I liked her unevolved form better though. :/ Maybe I'll get used to it faster than I think. ^^"
Still none of my pokémons can learn Cut though.
After the training was over, it was time to fight Brawly. Before I started recording, I checked the layout of the gym as I did with Roxanne too. I decided that I won't record the minor gym fights this time, because the whole place was set up as a dark labyrinth where you could barely see where you were going. Recording the parts where I'm blindly wandering in the darkness would have been pointless, but I also didn't want to cut together 6-8 different parts into one, because that would have taken too long.
So here we are! Second Gym Battle: Leader Brawly!
(http://www.wikihow.com/images/3/31/Step4-R-S-E.gif)
Here you can watch the full battle:
He stood no chance. The matchups were Lv.20 TURBULANCE vs Lv.16 MACHOP, Lv.21 TURBULANCE vs Lv.16 MEDITITE and Lv.19 ARGOR vs Lv.19 MAKUHITA. His 2 "strongest" pokémons were all finished with 1 shot each. In the end, we could say that I EM'd him. Well done, TURBULANCE and ARGOR! :)
After the battle was finished, we could leave Dewford Town. Reynold was farting around with his PokéNav for a bit, then finally headed to Slateport. In Slateport, nothing much happened yet. I found the Name Rater, a lot of trainers and a building full of Team Aqua grunts, which I assume will be my next destination. I will write more towards the end of the day.
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Oh wow, this Machop could have OTKed your Turbulance after the first Bulk up. Lucky that Brawly is too stupid.
Btw, Abra never learns anything else than Teleport by itself, but I guess you already thought of that.
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"And that was just the calm before the storm."
Last time I left the story before entering the maritime museum in Slateport City. There were a bunch of Team Aqua grunts in the hallway, but none of them wanted to fight, which is not what I expected. One of them even gave me a new TM. xD I headed upstairs, hoping that someone would fight me there, but I only found the plot scientist, who I needed to find anyway. For delivering the DEVON President's package, he rewarded me with an EXP Share, which is pretty rad. However, I was still a bit disappointed in the lack of fights.
"Oh, did you really think that you can get away without a fight? Think twice!"
"Twice, because you have to fight two of us. Get it?"
(http://snag.gy/E9ctK.jpg)
That's right, it was time for the battles I prepared for! These grunts introduced a new opponent: Carvanha. Despite their efforts, I could easily get rid of them with ARGOR and LIPLOP. After the issue was solved, I could finally continue my adventure to new areas.~
Before I leave Slateport City, there is something I want your (the audience's) opinion about. There is a place in Slateport that's called the Battle Tent. Here you can do special battles where you temporarily receive three level 30 pokémons to defeat other three level 30 pokémons. My question is that if I go in here and lose a temporarily traded pokémon, should that affect my game somehow or can I ignore everything that happens with swapped pokémons? So far I avoided battling here, but if you tell me that I have nothing to worry about, then I'll try it out for fun. ^^"
Reynold headed towards Route 110, where there was a chance for catching a new pokémon. After circling a bit in the tall grass, a new challenger appeared!
(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150108195906/pokemon/images/0/0a/309Electrike_AG_anime.png)
I had one problem though. I forgot to heal after my last trainer battle, so all my weaker pokémons were paralyzed and the stronger ones didn't have any moves that Electrike could survive. Having no other option, I commenced with the decade's biggest Paralyze battle where both me and my opponent failed to attack most of the time, because we couldn't move. After a long farting around, SPORE's Leech Seed could finally lower Electrike's hp enough so I could catch him with a Pokéball.
When I was looking for a suitable nickname, something came to my mind which I couldn't resist, so here we go. ^^"
(http://snag.gy/gSfZP.jpg)
After the decade's biggest Paralyze battle, it was time to heal and go further in the tall grass. I decided to equip PANDORA with the new EXP Share, which led to another surprise evolution once she hit Lv.18. PANDORA finally looks badass now! :D
(http://snag.gy/EStYd.jpg) (http://snag.gy/LFITy.jpg)
After progressing a bit, I got to a junction where I could go in 4 different directions. Two of them wanted me to use Cut, but still none of my 'mons could use it. Another required having a bicycle, which I still don't have, so I was left with only one option. I headed Northeast through a narrow path under the cycle road. After defeating a random trainer, something unexpected happened.
"And this is where things got awful really quick."
I was minding my own business when suddenly May showed up out of nowhere. She didn't beat around the bush for long, she wanted to battle.
(http://snag.gy/4jamh.jpg)
Third Rival Battle: Pokémon Trainer May!
(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/2/21/Pokemon_ORAS_May.png/revision/20141116191446)
"WHAT?! Dammit May, I didn't even heal my pokémon yet!
That's right. I got into a boss battle without healing my pokémons beforehand. Her first pokémon is a Wingull, but mine is not ready to battle, so I had to switch him out. I lost a turn with this however and I had to let Wingull do whatever it wanted to do. I figured out that TURBULANCE will have a good chance against Wingull, because he's higher level and all his attacks could hit for normal damage.
"Wingull used Wing Attack. It was a Critical Hit!"
WHAT! I barely switched him in and he's already dead?!?! :o Uh, wait, no, he still has 5 HP left. No, I can't let TURBULANCE die, I need to step up my game! It's time for MYRIONITE to step in. That's right, I switched in my final big gun, my starter pokémon.
When MYRIONITE was about to strike, the Wingull released its immense power and started an endless critical Wing Attack combo. Two turns in a row, MYRIONITE and Wingull kept exchanging Tackle for Wing Attack. In the end, we both ended up in the red zone. I had to make sure I don't lose MYRIONITE, so I switched to PANDORA, who could finally finish May's Wingull.
(http://snag.gy/T0iTA.jpg) (http://snag.gy/6nCZH.jpg) (http://snag.gy/8XOYK.jpg)
Reynold's 2 strongest already became useless, but this was only May's first pokémon! To top it off, I had to face the unknown next.
(http://snag.gy/qMDcb.jpg)
"What the heck is a Grovyle?? Is it a Ghost type or a Poison type?"
This is where the blind aspect comes into highlight. Because I never played with Emerald before, I had no idea what a Grovyle is. I couldn't even guess from the name, but I assumed that it's going to be a Ghost, Dark, Psychic or Poison type. I didn't have much choice anyway, so I switched in my pokémon in the best shape. Then I saw my opponent and let out a big "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!".
(http://snag.gy/sxZdf.jpg)
I didn't know if I should keep ARGOR in battle or switch out for someone else. It looked like one of those Grass-Poison type pokémons, so I eventually decided to keep ARGOR in battle and risked using a Psybeam that ARGOR recently learned. It was better than I expected, but then my blood froze in shock when I saw my opponent's next move.
GROVYLE used Pursuit.
It was super effective!
Whatever type Grovyle is, he knew Darkness moves, which is one of ARGOR's few weaknesses. Not only that, but it was Pursuit, which hits even a fleeing opponent and I think it even deals double damage if that happens. Had I switched out ARGOR instead of attacking, ARGOR might have been dead already.
(http://snag.gy/522X8.jpg)
But since Psybeam was so effective and Kadabra went first, I stayed in battle for one last Psybeam which could finally put Grovyle to rest.
Alright. Two down, one more to go.
May's last pokémon was Slugma, which I correctly assumed that it was a Fire type pokémon. It's too bad though that I put LIPLOP in the PC and my other guy MYRIONITE, who could be super effective against him, was too weak to battle. Contemplating between ARGOR and PANDORA, I decided to put PANDORA to the test once again.
Lv.18 PANDORA vs Lv.18 SLUGMA. PANDORA was already damaged when the battle started, so nothing of it was safe. I had to make every move count, so I used Bite, which PANDORA recently learned. It hit for very good damage, but then karma decided that then Slugma should hit hard too, so it was time to eat another critical hit.
(http://snag.gy/iCQyE.jpg)
It hit for just as big as PANDORA's bite, but PANDORA survived it! This enabled her to deal the finishing blow and put an end to this truly amazing battle. After the fight was over, May said some stuff and then ran off with her new bicycle. (Where did she get that from? I want one too.)
To see how much damage was dealt, just look at my party's health after the battle was over:
(http://snag.gy/btPCp.jpg)
EXODIA was not used, because he is still low level, and SPORE was not switched into battle, because the enemies were super effective against him most of the time. But I think I learned something from this. Actually, two things:
- Grovyle must be the evolved form of Treecko, which I should have expected. His dual type is still a mystery, but please don't spoil this part for me.
- EXODIA must be trained to the stars. That Wingull must not live, an Electric type must become a crucial party member!
After all this, I was still in the wild, out in the open, surrounded by huge patches of tall grass. These times are when I'm very thankful for ARGOR's Teleport. I could finally reach safety and heal my party to full health. I'm not going down easily!
Soon after healing up, I got in a double battle with a Collector and a Guitarist NPC. They started with an Electrike and a Lombre, but the Lombre was killed on the first turn, because I was afraid of the possibility of Astonish. It got soon replaced with a Nuzleaf, who dodged 2 of my attacks while he kept buffing himself. When the Voltorb showed up, I thought that someone will die.
(http://snag.gy/V3haB.jpg)
Luckily today we survived everything without casualties.
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.22 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150108195906/pokemon/images/0/0a/309Electrike_AG_anime.png) | Lv.16 EXODIA, the Electrike (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder Wave | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Leer | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.18 PANDORA, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite |
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| | (http://orig05.deviantart.net/9c6c/f/2013/227/7/c/285_shroomish_by_pklucario-d6iaeff.png) | Lv.18 SPORE, the Shroomish (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Mega Drain | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| (http://resource.pokemon-project.com/Taillow/FLASH%20-%20Taillow%20Vuelo%20Superior.png) | Lv.21 TURBULANCE, the Taillow (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Wing Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double Team | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Focus Energy | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Teleport | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Confusion | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Disable | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psybeam |
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That was.. intense, to say the least :P
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lol, following. That was fun to read hehe
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A critical hit!
I remember that I was totally surprised by May there, too.
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It was time to explore further. The first interesting thing I saw today was a giant Wailmer who could only use Splash. I had the assumption that only Magikarps can use that move, but I was proven wrong. Several fights later, I could finally reach Mauville City, where a new gym was awaiting for me.
"Wait, who's this green-haired kid? Haven't I seen you before?"
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/41/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Wally.png/120px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Wally.png)(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e1/280Ralts.png/250px-280Ralts.png)
Two NPCs were blocking the way to the gym, preventing me from entering.
Remember the kid who I had to show how to catch a Ralts earlier? That's right, that kid from earlier showed up again with his uncle. After some dialogues from here and there, it turned out that this kid had some sort of chronic weakness/illness before we met him. However, ever since we helped him to catch his first pokémon, his will to live became stronger, because he had now a pokémon to care for.
(http://snag.gy/OGX6U.jpg)
In the process of his healing however, I somehow became his senpai, so he wanted to battle me to get my attention. His level 15 Ralts was killed in one shot though, so this arc ended pretty quickly. ^^" Maybe the game wants to hint that he's going to be our new rival? We'll see when we next meet him. For now though, the gym gates were finally open.~
I went in to scout the gym's structure, but then accidently trapped myself into a position where I couldn't exit without fighting 3 gym trainers. One of them had 2 very strong bug type pokémons who almost killed MYRIONITE, but in the end TURBULANCE made sure that noone died there from my team.
Other than the gym, Mauville City's only interesting building was the bike shop, where I could finally get my first Mach Bike. ^^
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/0/0f/Mach_Bike_ORAS.png/revision/latest?cb=20140616174934)
It is confirmed now that our next destination is the Mauville Gym, where the leader is Wattson, who's a user of Electric-type pokémon. This leader's name is also a pun, so I think this will become a trend from now on (watt = electricity). As preparation, I did another training montage. Here are the important parts:
On Route 117, I caught a new teammate! :)
(http://pokemondungeon.net/gallery/albums/Sugimori/GSC/normal_183Marill_GS.png)
I am not very excited about Marill yet, because water types are already perfectly covered. Not only that, but Marill is also unable to learn Cut, so I can't even give an excuse to use him yet. For now, he will rest in the PC by the name of MICHAEL. I found the Day-Care couple though, so maybe I'll send him there soon to get some EXP.
For the upcoming gym fight, I decided that WILSON will be more useful than EXODIA, so I swapped them. The team I want to use is MYRIONITE, SPORE, PANDORA, WILSON, ARGOR and TURBULANCE as a backup. During their training, the following evolutions happened:
(http://snag.gy/P0l0L.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Vqazf.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/7gUth.jpg) (http://snag.gy/riwRf.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/vWAGI.jpg) (http://snag.gy/rs5e8.jpg)
I was probably the most surprised about SPORE's evolution, because I had absolutely no idea what he's going to evolve into. This was definitely not what I expected. xD After WILSON evolved, I finally recognized which evolution line he was on. Loudred was his only form that I saw before, but I thought that this form is what's called Exploud, so there will be place for more surprises later.
MYRIONITE also conveniently learned Mud Sport right before the Electric type gym, so I think we'll be alright. :) Here is my team as we're heading into the gym:
(http://snag.gy/5aSMD.jpg)
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Wow this is actually really interesting....
Quite lucky that you got Mudkip as your starter (in general Water type starters are the best, simply because Water types in general have some of the most powerful, accurate, and easily attained moves, as well as generally being effective against a wide variety of pokemon while being weak against few). A Grass Type starter might have been a nightmare in the later stages.
I think I'll be following this, and in honor of that:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/books-comics/pokemon-dating-a-team-magma-grunt/new/#new
A link (to a link ;D) to a doujinshi based on Pokemon: Omega Ruby. It's a very well made Slice-of-Life Rom-Com that will make anyone familiar with Pokemon burst out laughing (especially I think the 4th Chapter lol).
Also, in your rules, is trading allowed? That Kadabra is never going to become the almighty Alakazam if it is not traded ;_;
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Breloom has to be one of my favorite pokemon, in terms of looks. Love it.
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Breloom is also a very strong pokemon, its not only it's great art. :)
Mud Sport is a completely useless move, as its effect is only active as long as its user is in the battle. As Myrionite itself is immune anyway, it doesn't have any uses (unless in double matches, but even then it is weak).
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Breloom is going to kick ass in the soon to come gym fight~
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Also, in your rules, is trading allowed? That Kadabra is never going to become the almighty Alakazam if it is not traded ;_;
Sadly only NPC trading is allowed, so I doubt that I'll ever see Kadabra's final form. But he's still one of my all-time favorites, even if he can't evolve further. ^^
Breloom has to be one of my favorite pokemon, in terms of looks. Love it.
Swellow looks pretty awesome too from the latest evolutions. :)
I grew to like every member of my team, so let's hope that Wattson won't kill any of them. And speaking of Wattson, here comes today's last update!
Here I am, inside the Mauville Electric Type Gym. I do a quick warm-up by defeating 2 gym trainers in a double battle, then I'm ready to amplify my way to Wattson. This gym was my favorite so far, probably because of the diverse pokémon types. Sadly I couldn't record the gym trainer with the Bug-type pokémons, but that was probably the most exciting prior to Wattson.
I hope you are ready for an electrifying experience! Second Gym Battle: Leader Wattson(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f7058809445d579e2096e9b30a842460/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko3_r3_400.gif)
Watch the full battle here:
Let's do this! I decided to use MYRIONITE for the first battle. You know, in case an Electrode would wait for me with Self-Destruct. The first 2 battles were pushovers, MYRIONITE was 6 levers higher than them and he also had the type advantage. Those matchups were Lv.20 VOLTORB and Lv.20 ELECTRIKE vs Lv.26 MYRIONITE.
This was when finally the MAGNEMITES showed up! I prepared a lot on Route 110 against other trainer's Magnemites with SPORE, so it was finally his time to shine. Next matchup was Lv.23 SPORE vs Lv.22 MAGNETON. As I said, this was a tested matchup, SPORE had no way to lose. ;) Next up was Wattson's final pokémon! I was excited and SPORE had full health, so he was ready for one more.
(http://orig01.deviantart.net/8614/f/2011/353/3/a/dep___manectric_by_blazedgo-d4jmge1.png)
Lv.24 SPORE vs Lv.24 MANECTRIC, wow! :o So this is how EXODIA (my Electrike) will look after levelling up. It looks awesome! :D Everything here went according to plan: SPORE applied Leech Seeds first which served as regeneration and damage over time. After that, SPORE used Stun Spore (hehe), which slowed MANECTRIC down. None of MANECTRIC's electric moves were very effective, while Mach Punch and Mega Drain could hit for normal damage.
In the end, I really enjoyed this battle. We could say that it was Shocking! xD
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.26 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Sport | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Pound | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Uproar | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Astonish | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.20 PANDORA, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite |
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| | (http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) | Lv.24 SPORE, the Breloom (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Mega Drain | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Mach Punch | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| (http://imgur.com/gm8UPk6.jpg) | Lv.24 TURBULANCE, the Swellow (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Wing Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double Team | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Focus Energy | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Teleport | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Confusion | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Disable | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psybeam |
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SWELLOW too SWOLE.
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"I'm pretty sure we're lost."
Today I went exploring. There was no need to grind for anything, so I sat on my bike and headed off into the unknown.~ First things first though, someone needed to learn Rock Smash in order to advance, so I brought MICHAEL out of the PC and finally gave him an excuse to be used. The reason why I needed Rock Smash is that 2 rocks were blocking my path on Route 111. After MICHAEL used Rock Smash though, I experienced my first surprise encounter.
(http://pokemondungeon.net/gallery/albums/Sugimori/GSC/normal_183Marill_GS.png) (http://snag.gy/mIKsQ.jpg) (http://static.pokemonpets.com/images/monsters-images-300-300/74-Geodude.png)
This was a new area, so I could catch this Geodude. It was actually pretty handy, because I didn't have any Rock-type pokémons before. :) After catching him, I named him GOYLE, which was supposed to be a shorter version of Gargoyle. It was only later during the day that I realized that in english, it's also a character from Harry Potter, but let's ignore that. (http://elementscommunity.org/chat/skin/smilies/whistling.png)
Soon after the Geodude encounter, I reached Route 112. Here I found another patch of tall grass, but before I went to catch a new teammate, I decided to defeat all the trainers in the area first. Now that I had to carry MICHAEL around with me, I needed him in better shape. One of the hikers in the area had 3 Geodudes, so I decided that it will be the perfect start to MICHAEL's training. These Geodudes were 3 levels higher than MICHAEL, but Water Gun was double effective, so I felt safe. The first one was already defeated, so I carried on to the second one without a clue.
That's when Magnitude 9 happened. In a blink of an eye, MICHAEL was no more.
I could barely understand what happened for a second, but then I finally realized: We just had our first defeat. :( I couldn't let anyone else go down, so for the rest of the match, I let SPORE take care. Luckily I didn't have too many fond memories with MICHAEL yet, so his loss was manageable. Especially because the game decided to refund my loss. After the trainers in the area were defeated, the new pokémon I encountered was another Marill, just 3 levels higher than MICHAEL was.
It all happened so fast though, that SPORE almost killed this other one too!
Oh and I'm not exaggerating here! For a moment I forgot what I was doing and told SPORE to use Mega Drain on this Marill. It's only luck that she survived:
(http://snag.gy/R2qKw.jpg)
After successfully catching her, I gave her the name MAINERIE, which is an anagram of "remain", because MICHAEL's soul remains with us. (I checked the tall grass again, and if I hadn't lost MICHAEL, I could have caught a Numel.) Here I pay my tribute to the fallen:
MICHAEL, the Marill: Lv.13, from Route 117. Died by Route 112’s HIKER TRENT’s Lv.16 Geodude. 3 level difference, Magnitude 9 too strong, 1-hit KO.
Your name was inspired by Rooster Teeth's Michael Jones.(http://snag.gy/noBOY.jpg) (http://snag.gy/nT6cy.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Sixd8.jpg) (http://snag.gy/v6WSn.jpg)
"Bye-Bye MICHAEL! :( May you rest in peace."
I learned something from this incident though. My first thing to do was to sign up MAINERIE in the Day-Care, so my pokémons can no longer lose by being underlevelled in the correct type matchup.
My next destination was Mount Chimney! This was my first time that I actually saw Team Magma in the game. They were blocking my path to use a transport vehicle, but at least I could eevesdrop what they were talking about. It turned out that they will stay there until their boss obtains a specific meteorite.
(http://snag.gy/S7g36.jpg)
It meant that I could only advance through Fiery Path though. There I had a second chance to catch a fire type after MAINERIE took over a potential Numel's place.
I got not only lucky, but also surprised as hell.
"OH MY GOD, what is that?! I want it!"
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3b/324Torkoal.png/250px-324Torkoal.png)
I've never seen a Torkoal before, plus I lacked a Fire-Type from my team, so I got excited pretty fast. ^^ After an unnecessarily long stalling, I could finally catch Torkoal with a Pokéball.
"Do you wish to give a nickname to TORKOAL?"
(http://snag.gy/5g8Oy.jpg)
Uhh... actually I wish I didn't had to, but my rules say it clearly that I must. So I spent like 20 minutes of thinking about a name, but nothing suitable came to my mind. I could have named her NAPALM, but that would have been a reference too obscure, so I just went with TERAFUZE. :P Even though I was excited about TERAFUZE, I couldn't use her yet, because my party was full and I didn't want to backtrack to a previously visited PokéCenter.
After I exited Fiery Path, my way lead through the ash-covered Route 113. It looked like a snowy area, except that it was volcanic ash that was falling instead of snow. Before I sum up my farting around here, I need to mention the new teammate I caught here:
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/6/6e/327Spinda_AG_anime_2.png/revision/latest?cb=20150101213205)
"SPOOLE the Spinda was transferred to the PC in box 1. Yet another minion that I cannot use yet."
During the upcoming level-ups, ARGOR had to forget Teleport in order to learn Reflect. I was a tad bit sad about it, because that move grew close to me after the surprise duel with May. But alas, the old had to give place to the new.~
(http://snag.gy/Bvy0i.jpg)
We could experience the opposite too though, because once GOYLE reached a specific level, he wanted to learn something heavily unnecessary. I think I made the right choice when I didn't teach him Selfdestruct. :P
(http://snag.gy/5VVD5.jpg)
While fighting some trainers, EXODIA almost got killed by a Numel and a Shroomish. After Numel hit EXODIA with Ember for a critical hit, EXODIA's HP ended up in the redzone. My terror was not over yet though, because Shroomish's Leech Seed from 1 turn before started to kick in
after EXODIA's hp was almost zero. It was only a miracle that EXODIA survived that.
(http://snag.gy/ZlLzL.jpg)
It turned out that the area where I caught SPOOLE was full of Spindas, so it was barely impossible to catch anything else. However, I had a chance to meet the area's rarest encounter, and I quickly became jealous. That's right, I could have caught a Skarmory instead of a Spinda.
(http://snag.gy/DbSSt.jpg)
And just one more farting around. One of the trainers had a Trapinch, which I had no idea what type it was. I assumed that it's either Bug, Dark or Ground type, but after SPORE hit it with Mega Drain and it was super effective, I think I can safely assume that Trapinch is mono Ground-Type.
(http://snag.gy/CEFv8.jpg)
After some trainer fights in the area, GOYLE decided that it's time to evolve. He didn't even wait until the readers could get used to his basic form. ^^" At least he can take bigger hits now. :)
(http://snag.gy/9eacm.jpg) (http://snag.gy/dJxQa.jpg)
Since this is an exploration episode, I'm gonna skip the fact that I had to go through Fallarbor Town, because nothing interesting happened there. Instead, let's jump to Route 114, where it was time to catch another pokémon! :D Spinning around in the grass, and eventually a wild little fella showed up.~
"SWOOSH the Swablu is reporting in for work! Swoo~ Swoo~"
(http://imgur.com/GJsgiUZ.png)
(http://snag.gy/VYy7a.jpg)
I could luckily catch her without a problem. :) Yes, I called her SWOOSH.
This episode is already drawing long, but it's still not over yet. Exploration episodes are always long, because there is no goal to be achieved and it's easy to aimlessly wander around. ^^" My next destination was Meteor Falls, a cave where only Zubats and Solrocks live and also where the plot finally decided to advance a bit.
(http://www.gamethud.com/uploads/2/2/1/7/22174904/1417077581.png) (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/338.png) (http://imgur.com/62kxaKl.png)
Professor Cozmo, a scientist from Fallarbor Town, was captured by Team Magma and they stole a specific meteorite from him. When Reynold arrived there on his new Acro Bike (which he temporarily switched to from his Mach Bike), Cozmo was being robbed. That's also when Archie - Team Aqua's leader - arrived to the scene with some Team Aqua grunts. Magma's plot shield was too strong at this point, which made it sure that they get away before I could battle any of them. Archie sent his grunts after Team Magma, then he warned me to stay away from the likes of them, because their goals are preposterous. Stuff happened then, something something plot device, blah blah. TL;DR Aqua wants to flood the lands with water, Magma wants to dry the oceans. It was not known yet though how they want to achieve it, but it's hinted that they need the help of a legendary pokémon to achieve their sinister plans.
"Oh, and by the way, I caught a Solrock who I named SOLARIS." ^^"
That was all the plot to this episode, though my exploration was still not over yet. After I exited Meteor Fall, I realized that I arrived back to Rustboro City, where I first battled Roxanne. After I did a giant circle around Mount Chimney, I still didn't know where I had to go. I even went back to Petalburg City to see whether Reynold's Dad was ready for battle or not, but his gym was still not accessible. I went back to Mauville city to switch my Acro Bike back for my Mach Bike. I also visited the Day-Care lady again and took out MAINERIE who grew 8 levels while I was away. I decided to put SPOOLE and SOLARIS in the Day-Care next, because they were my 2 weakest at the moment. I even had time to level EXODIA up to level 24 to see if he turns into Manectric, but it looks like Wattson used steroids on his, because mine is still just an Electrike.
"As I hinted in the beginning of the episode, I'm pretty sure we're lost."
But luckily I didn't need to take another full circle, because I started realizing where I needed to go. Remember this image from earlier?
(http://snag.gy/S7g36.jpg)
Now that Team Magma stole the meteorite, these 2 grunts were finally not blocking my path on Route 112. Nostalgia hit me there for a moment, because just few steps away did I lose my first pokémon. Here is where I will continue from tomorrow.
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.28 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Sport | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder Wave | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.26 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Astonish | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Flash | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Nature Power |
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| (http://imgur.com/gm8UPk6.jpg) | Lv.25 TURBULANCE, the Swellow (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Wing Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double Team | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Focus Energy | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack |
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| | (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140226033402/leonhartimvu/images/a/af/064_Kadabra_Shiny.png) | Lv.24 ARGOR, the Kadabra (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Reflect | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Confusion | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Disable | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psybeam |
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MICHAEL noooo! :'(
Electrike evolves at Level 26, so yeah, Wattson is a hacker :P
Too bad you had to pass up on that Skarmory; I love Skarmory!~
You are correct about Trapinch, he is a single-type Ground Pokemon.
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Yeah, the cheater Wattson uses two under-levelled pokemon (Magnemite evolves at level 30). ^^
Sad to see Michael being knocked out. :(
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I'm starting with a short episode today. Partly because I don't know if I will have time for more and also because I just want to get over with the video uploading part. ^^" Before I left off, I was at Route 112, waiting in front of the transportation vehicle whose name I always forget about. Here is how it looked like in action:
(http://imgur.com/TyUyUI0.jpg)
When I got to the top, I found myself within a gang battle battle Magma and Aqua. While Magma Leader Maxie was plotting something, Archie took on a 3-v-1 at a time. It was hilarious.
(http://imgur.com/0ySjcwY.jpg)
When I went to the left, I faced Magma grunts for the first time in this game, iirc. They were kinda manageable, except that a freakin' Numel used Magnitude 7 when I had a Rock and an Electric type pokémon on the field! Luckily the hit was received from full health, so GOYLE and EXODIA both survived it. ^^ EXODIA is getting a lot of close calls, though! :o He should quickly evolve, because in his current state, he cannot receive much hits like that.
(http://snag.gy/9MEA9.jpg) (http://snag.gy/2UOnl.jpg) (http://snag.gy/YOewS.jpg)
Before meeting the big guy himself, I unexpectedly ran into an Intro Bossfight; Magma Admin Tabitha challenged me to a duel. Now this was interesting, because I believe I haven't met him before. (or I just didn't notice. The dude's basically just a magma grunt with a cape!) I went into the battle with higher than average expectations, but came out of it with a good laugh. Here is why: my first matchup was my Lv.16 LIPLOP vs his Lv.18 Numel. None of LIPLOP's moves were super-strong, so I used Nature Power, because I was curious what move will it turn into. In this area, Nature Power turned into Rock Slide. It only chipped down one fourth of Numel's HP, but at least he flinched. I decided to use it a second time to see if it flinches, and it did! :D
Numel got flinchlocked for 3 turns, so in the end LIPLOP won that matchup without a scratch.
(http://snag.gy/O7s65.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Ri4u3.jpg)
After the ridiculous Admin battle, it was finally time to meet the Mastermind behind Magma, the Menacing Maxie.
Boss Battle: Magma Leader Maxie(http://i.imgur.com/cSvPUEF.png) (http://i.imgur.com/bfNudLd.png) (http://i.imgur.com/cSvPUEF.png)
You can watch the battle here:
The battle was not a big deal, but I uploaded the video about it anyway. ^^" Since nothing groundshaking happened (except maybe that Magnitude 9), I'll only mention that I won this battle without any loss. Now that it's over, I'm gonna carry on to explore more and see if I can squeeze in more to today's updates. ;)
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BONUS for today's episode:
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/7a/2d/11/7a2d118538b61227a2c7a58b5dac2899.jpg)
I found this yesterday while browsing for fitting images that I can use. It's hilarious. xD
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"Tomorrow we fight. Today we rest."
Between where I fought with Team Magma and where I needed to go, only one route laid. This route was new though, so I prepared my Great Balls, since I already ran out of all my regular pokéballs. (I also have a Premier Ball for some reason, but it says that it's rare, so I'm not wasting it) This new path was a one-way route; once you go down, you have to climb the mountain again to reach back. I did the mistake to accidently miss some locations because of this, but I was lucky enough to reach the only grass patch that this area had. ^^" So let's see who we got.~
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/322.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/85/066Machop.png/250px-066Machop.png)
A young Numel showed up! Since I had only Great Balls, catching her was easier than usually. :) Even the namegiving was the fastest so far. From now on, Numel shall live by the name NAMIRA. I remembered though that if MICHAEL hadn't died, I could have caught a Numel earlier instead of another Marill, and that also means that I could have caught a different pokémon in this area. I checked the next pokémon out of curiosity, and it turned out that I could have gotten a Machop if MICHAEL hadn't die.
Before going to Lavaridge Town, I decided to backtrack a bit in order to find a good training place. I didn't find any, but LIPLOP almost died to a Seviper. LIPLOP's only move was Absorb, but that could only deal 2 damage, while Seviper had attacks that hit for 6-8. Not only that, but Seviper also used Wrap, which prevented LIPLOP from switching out of battle. Luckily Wrap ended after 3 turns and we could run away.~
Another news! We received our first egg. After we beat the next gym leader, I'll try to hatch it.
"Next up on my destination list was Lavaridge Town, where there was another gym to challenge."
"And apparently the leader is a Hottie (http://www.badumtss.net/)."
(http://snag.gy/zNd2x.jpg)
According to at least 2 NPCs from Lavaridge, Flannery, the local gym leader is a Hottie, not only because her looks, but also because she's a Firebender. Er... I mean a user of Fire-type pokémon. ^^" Once again I attempted to check the gym's structure, but it was so foggy, that only the NPCs were visible. To make the experience worse, the gym was a maze full of teleport locations, but you couldn't see where the teleportation points were because of the dense steam.
"I only walked 3 steps to the left and then I got teleported to the middle of nowhere."
(http://snag.gy/bULoc.jpg)
To save any fellow Emerald player the pain to bump into all the walls in this gym, here is a map that I created while exploring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mQNydU1Zf6JLlL9msPkngrJ8E2ppKk_zg4EewSQdvdE/edit?usp=sharing
While I was blindly bumping into every wall, I couldn't help but also defeated all trainers on my way, leaving less battles for the upcoming video. At least one interesting thing happened in this gym: MAINERIE, the successor of MICHAEL finally evolved into her final form at lv.25! :) I was actually surprised, because I thought that Azumarill was a Gen 4 thing.
(http://snag.gy/nynzq.jpg) (http://snag.gy/hDMeT.jpg)
So that's all for today's episode. I saved the game while I was standing right in front of Flannery, so tomorrow this is what we'll start with. My team is ready, I am ready, I hope you are ready too. My team is a bit underlevelled this time, so someone might not survive, but that is tomorrow's business. For now, I will just just chill in the Lavaridge Hot Spring (where I found an Ice Heal via my Itemfinder, by the way. Such a strange place for that item to be found o_O).
Question of the Day!
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I recently realized that I have a Moon Stone. If at any point I catch a pokémon who can be evolved by that, please notify me about it. :)
I also need your help with deciding something else. On Route 113, a guy agreed to craft me a glass item, but he only crafts me one thing. I want you to the decide what I should ask for. Please also explain what the chosen item is good for, because I have no idea. ^^"
- Blue Flute
- Black Flute
- Yellow Flute
- Red Flute
- White Flute
- Pretty Chair
- Pretty Desk
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.28 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Sport | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/12/294Loudred.png/250px-294Loudred.png) | Lv.25 WILSON, the Loudred (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Pound | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Uproar | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Supersonic | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Howl |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.28 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw |
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| | (http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/azumarill.png) | Lv.27 MAINERIE, the Azumarill (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tail Whip | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rollout | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Bubblebeam |
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| (http://imgur.com/gm8UPk6.jpg) | Lv.26 TURBULANCE, the Swellow (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Wing Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double Team | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Focus Energy | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack |
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| | (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/322.png) | Lv.21 NAMIRA, the Numel (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Growl | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Ember | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude |
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I think you got very lucky against Mightyena; its Bites were to become a serious threat against your team, that cannot resist Dark-type moves and are mostly unable to speed Mightyena out.
I'ld pick Yellow Flute; this flute heals pokemon from confusion without getting lost. As there is no regular item to heal confusion (except for the more expensive Full Heal, or the Persim Berry), it saves a lot of money. Red Flute is the only possibility to heal from Attract (other than switching out), but that is a rarely seen move. Blue Flute wakes up.
White and Black Flute increase the chance to encounter weaker or stronger pokémon, respectively, so the Black Flute may also take your interest. Chair and Desk have no influence on your story and are to decorate your Secret Base (which is useless on an emulator).
On another note: Please stop using tiny text. It is so annoying that you have to copy/paste it to an editor to read it. Seriously.
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mightyena has only 60 special attack (every dark is special, not physical, bite is a physical move after gen 4), using a move with only 60 power doesn't inflict so much damage
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A 60 power move isn't so weak if your Pokémon are only a bit above lv20, and even if Mightyena's Spc Atk isn't so great, it still gains STAB and 30% chance to flinch.
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I think you got very lucky against Mightyena; its Bites were to become a serious threat against your team, that cannot resist Dark-type moves and are mostly unable to speed Mightyena out.
I'ld pick Yellow Flute; this flute heals pokemon from confusion without getting lost. As there is no regular item to heal confusion (except for the more expensive Full Heal, or the Persim Berry), it saves a lot of money. Red Flute is the only possibility to heal from Attract (other than switching out), but that is a rarely seen move. Blue Flute wakes up.
White and Black Flute increase the chance to encounter weaker or stronger pokémon, respectively, so the Black Flute may also take your interest. Chair and Desk have no influence on your story and are to decorate your Secret Base (which is useless on an emulator).
On another note: Please stop using tiny text. It is so annoying that you have to copy/paste it to an editor to read it. Seriously.
I didn't know it's so annoying. Usually I only use text size lower than 8 if there is something barely relevant, but I'll avoid it in the future.
Thank you for the advices on the flutes though. :) So far the black flute is the most appealing to me, so I think I will get that one.
About Mightyena, I think SPORE and PANDORA will be good contenders, because of Mach Punch and being a higher level version of the same pokémon. ^^
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Oh right, forgot about SPORE. I totally lost the overview of which Pokémon you have, I rarely train a full team before my 6th or 7th badge. xD I have never made a nuzlocke, though (so far, at least), and with Pokémon having the chance to "die", I guess having more available is important.
I didn't know it's so annoying. Usually I only use text size lower than 8 if there is something barely relevant, but I'll avoid it in the future.
I wanna catch read them all. ^^
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Right into it! Fourth Gym Battle: Leader Flannery(http://25.media.tumblr.com/a88026b57ebd42c03b40ebb12ba377ea/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko4_r1_400.gif)
You can watch the video here, as always:
This is where we left off last time. My team was ready to roll: MAINERIE, MYRIONITE, GOYLE, TURBULANCE, WILSON and NAMIRA. First matchup: Lv.27 MAINERIE vs Lv.24 NUMEL. This battle was a one-shot, and seeing how easy it was, I started to become much more confident. When Flannery was about to send out Slugma, I decided to at least make the battle diverse just like I did with Wattson, so it's not just one pokémon sweeping the whole gym. Second matchup: Lv.28 GOYLE vs Lv.24 SLUGMA. The level difference was still in my favor, but at least the opponent was not double-weak to any of my moves, just normal weak. Magnitude 4 was a huge disappointment, but Slugma wasted his chance to attack for a boost move, enabling GOYLE to finish Slugma with a second Magnitude.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iREVgLCDiXA/TWneCO91dnI/AAAAAAAAD6A/0XjIjDqS15I/s320/azumarill.png) (http://i.imgur.com/Kcz6M9J.gif) VS (http://i.imgur.com/f11BiJC.png) (http://imgur.com/2QBs2BF.jpg)
The next matchup was against a Camerupt, which is the evolved form on Numel. For this matchup, I wanted to use someone with Water-type moves, but I already used MAINERIE, so I decided to bring MYRIONITE out. Next matchup: Lv.28 MYRIONITE vs Lv.26 CAMERUPT. MYRIONITE's Water Gun could do okay-ish damage, however, Flannery decided to pull a Whitney and brought the big guns out.
"Camerupt used Attract! MYRIONITE fell in love with foe's Camerupt."
This was quite unexpected, but it makes sense for Flannery to have such moves. Half of the town is probably in love with her, because even the women kept telling me how beautiful they think she is. The next Water Gun went through without a problem, so nothing was lost yet. MYRIONITE was just one more Water Gun away from winning this, so I believed that MYRIONITE could do this. He could indeed get through another Water Gun, but Flannery decided to use a Hyper Potion right before that. From then on, MYRIONITE started to be immobilized by love... >_<
"Dammit MYRIONITE, snap out of it!"
After MYRIONITE got immobilized by love 3 times in a row, I gave up hope to get Water Gun through and switched MAINERIE in battle. MYRIONITE suffered significant damage though, so things started to look a bit iffy. Switching in a new pokémon gave Camerupt an extra turn to attack, but luckily she missed. On the next attack, MAINERIE could finish Camerupt with a critical Bubblebeam. Well done! :)
(http://i.imgur.com/ltSAMzP.png) (http://i.imgur.com/JpHCu0F.png)
"Three down! One to go."
Next up, Flannery was about to send out Torkoal. I had a Torkoal too, but that one wasn't particularly strong yet. I decided to keep MAINERIE in battle, because she had type advantage, full HP and also Attract immunity (even if I didn't realize this when I made my decision). Last, fourth matchup: Lv.27 MAINERIE vs Lv.29 TORKOAL. I long ago stopped looking at the levels, so it's only after rewatching the footage that I realized what level Torkoal was. I got very lucky, because just when she sent out her last pokémon, the effect of Sunny Day ended. Since the beginning of the battle, I realized that what Slugma used was not just a regular buff move, but a buff that strenghtens fire-type attacks for multiple turns for all party members.
"Here is our chance! MAINERIE, use Bubblebeam and aim for the weak spot!"
Bubblebeam took down more than half of Torkoal's HP, so I got a bit disappointed that this battle will be over too soon. What I didn't notice though is that it was a critical hit, so the regular damage was probably a bit lower than that. MAINERIE perfectly aimed for the weak spot while she could, but from next turn, Sunny Day was in effect again. The next Bubblebeam did significantly less damage though. This is when I started suspecting that maybe Sunny Day not only boosts fire-type moves, but also weakens water-type attacks. (I didn't remember at the time that my first hit was critical, but maybe I was right anyway.) That was it though, Torkoal's HP was low enough that another Bubblebeam could finish her.
"TORKOAL used Bodyslam! MAINERIE got paralyzed, she may be unable to move."
"UHHHHHH! Not another Hyper Potion!"
Not only did I got the chance to miss with my next attack, but Flannery also took away my chance for a finishing blow by healing Torkoal back to full health. Hey Flannery! Didn't you know that this is a Nuzlocke?! Healing items are not allowed! D:< But whatever, at least MAINERIE could successfully land the next hit. But because of the Parlyz state, MAINERIE slowed down, so Torkoal could start the next turn with another BodySlam. Not only did it bring MAINERIE down to half of her HP, but I also couldn't move because of being paralyzed. Nothing was lost yet, so I switched in GOYLE for some Magnitude action.~ The switching gave a free move to Flannery, but she wasted it again by missing.
"The sunlight faded."
"Now is your chance, GOYLE. Use Magnitude!"
Magnitude 5, booo!! It barely did any damage. I should have just used Rock Throw or something. :P Next turn Sunny Day was in effect again, but at least I could get a free hit with Magnitude again. Or at least that's what I thought. Torkoal was somehow faster than GOYLE this time and she could use freakin' Attract again, rendering GOYLE to be immobilized by love. AAAARH! I proceeded to keep trying Magnitude, but I had to wait for my turn. This was when I saw something new...
(http://i.imgur.com/kQQSuqZ.png)
"HOLY EFFIN SHIT! Get GOYLE out of there NOW!"
(http://i.imgur.com/s8A9C7a.png)
What do you mean it's not very effective?! It almost killed a pokémon with double type resistance! GOYLE was reduced from full health to 9 HP by a fire-type move. This is when things started to become serious. NONE of my pokémons would be able to survive that hit, so I had to wait it out. After successfully using that move for the first time, Torkoal's Sp.Attack harshly fell, but she had a WhitePowder equipped which raised it back again. I figured that if I could lure that attack one more time, then it would become weak enough so that my other pokémons could survive it. But for that to happen, I had to make an inevitable sacrifice. :(
It was obvious. The next guy who's out will die. I had to make a tough decision.
From the available pokémon, I decided to sacrifice NAMIRA. I already had another fire type in the PC, which Flannery was still proving that is better than a Numel. After sending NAMIRA out, I still hoped that Flannery used any other move or that NAMIRA's type resistance will somehow make her survive. But alas, after already missing 2 opportunities earlier, Flannery learned from her mistakes and went all-out with another Overheat. Even though it wasn't very effective again, NAMIRA died by a single hit. :(
I didn't know what to do next. If Flannery uses that move over and over, can any of my pokémons survive? Is this really the end of my Nuzlocke adventure? These kind of thoughts circled in my head, when I finally realized something. Overheat causes the user's Sp.Attack to decrease sharply, so Overheat itself should be a Special Attack too. That would explain why GOYLE suffered such huge damage, because his Sp.Def was terrible.
I started to browse through the stats of my pokémons to find anything reassuring.
After a bit of thinking, I could finally figure out a solution: TURBULANCE! He had much higher Sp.Def than GOYLE had, plus he was also at full health, so he should be able to survive with at least 9 HP too. Hoping that the plan will work, I put all my trust in him. After the decision was made and the button was clicked, all the time we spent together with TURBULANCE flashed before my eyes. I didn't want to lose him, he was my favorite in this run. I caught him after beating Roxanne, I chose his nickname with the most care. Once he learned Wing Attack, he was unstoppable and my only key against Grass and Bug types for a long time. I carried him with me everywhere, and I didn't want it to end now.
It was finally our turn again. TURBULANCE used Wing Attack, because that was his strongest available move. Torkoal shouldn't be resistant to it, so I expected at least decent damage. Sadly it barely hit Flannery's Torkoal for anything though. :/ The horrors were incoming again though! Flannery used Overheat! TURBULANCE, if this is the last thing you do, endure it please! :o TURBULAAAAANCEEEEE!!!
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And then just silence...
In a blink of an eye, TURBULANCE was no more. I lost yet another friend. :(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Not TURBULANCE! :'( I cannot believe how stupid I was. I should have just sent out someone else instead of my probably most valued pokémon. After the second harsh Sp.Atk decrease though, I was a bit more confident that MYRIONITE could stand a chance against the upcoming attacks. Luckily right after I sent him out, the sunlight faded again.
(http://i.imgur.com/bPd1Fa0.png)
It was a perfectly aimed hit! Torkoal's HP was finally down to the redzone, so I really just needed a final hit now. I didn't even care that MYRIONITE fell in love by Attract again, because if I could get just that one attack to hit, then it would be all over.
It was not to be that way though. MYRIONITE was immobilized by love once again.
Dammit! At least Torkoal's next move was just a Body Slam and not another Overheat. I had to bring MYRIONITE out though! I can't lose my starter pokémon. That would be just disastrous. Having no other good options, I became ready to test WILSON's survivability. He had full health, so not all hope was gone.
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/294.png)
"Torkoal used Body Slam."
Whew. At least we could survive the free turn that we gave to Flannery again by switching out. It all came down to speed and strenght now. Luckily WILSON was the first one to attack, and it hit Torkoal with a critical hit. It was finally over.
When I got outside the gym though, I had to deal with another surprise. May came out of nowhere again and stopped me from moving for a second.
(http://snag.gy/av2h0.jpg)
I was not in a condition to battle, so I really hoped that I could avoid battling here. Luckily she just wanted to give me new goggles, so I could avoid instant death.
A bit later, it was time to release the fallen.
For NAMIRA:
NAMIRA, the Numel: Lv.21, from Jagged Pass. Died by Flannery’s Lv.29 Torkoal. Someone had to be sacrificed and sadly you lost the draw. 1-hit KO. Your name was inspired by an Elder Scrolls deity.
For TURBULANCE:
TURBULANCE, the Swellow: Lv.7-26, from Route 116. Died by Flannery's Lv.29 Torkoal. Overheat was stronger than I hoped for. 1-hit KO. You were my fifth pokémon to catch, one of the original 6. You will be missed.
(http://snag.gy/t7BTw.jpg) (http://snag.gy/l7Hlo.jpg) (http://snag.gy/YAfvo.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/7VKX9.jpg) (http://snag.gy/fplqB.jpg) (http://snag.gy/njggx.jpg)
Releasing TURBULANCE was heartbreaking, but it had to be done.
"Bye-Bye TURBULANCE and NAMIRA! :( May you rest in peace."
And by that, today's episode ends here.
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Damn, that Torkoal took no prisoners...
RIP Turbulence, RIP Namira :'(
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Not Turbulance! D:
The normal/flying bird pokemon found near the start of the game were always my favorites ;-; (Starly being my absolute favorite for some reason)
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Also starting an Emerald Nuzlocke ;) TYPHOON the Mudkip prepares for his first steps!
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Oh ouch, Turbulance. :(
Fire hits Ground for neutral damage, btw.
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taznkid, put that post in a Spoiler or delete it, he has not played Emerald before and is doing this blind, he doesn't want to know anything he doesn't already :)
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taznkid, put that post in a Spoiler or delete it, he has not played Emerald before and is doing this blind, he doesn't want to know anything he doesn't already :)
I read your comment first, so I haven't read the post above yours yet. ^^" Is it a spoiler about something that's coming soon or about something that affects the entire game? He doesn't need to delete it, it's just enough to put it in a spoiler and name it to "SPOILER: Don't Read!" or something. :)
Btw, new update being posted soon~
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it's about the evolution path of a pokemon you may or may not know about
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I needed some time to recover, but I could finally pull myself through the recent tragedy. TURBULANCE's place was temporarily taken by SWOOSH, the Swablu, because she's the next Normal-Flying dual type available.
My next destination was the desert not so far away. When I entered the area, there was a funny-looking tower that a nearby hiker called the Sand Tower (or Mirage Tower, as the game called it when I entered). The hiker also said that he can see the tower which was supposed to be a myth or something. (Quite a strange thing to say, because the tower was clearly visible, even if it was flickering.) I didn't want to explore it yet, so I went out in the desert to catch a new pokémon. I was pretty happy when a lv.20 Sandshrew showed up. :) Catching it took me some time, but in the end, my Great Balls emerged victorious.
(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/c/c6/027Sandshrew_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20140906222809) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/76/328Trapinch.png/250px-328Trapinch.png)
"Would you like to give a nickname to Sandshrew?"
Sure! I was getting a bit nostalgic with my other Nuzlockes in Pokémon Diamond, so I gave him a name that I often gave to my pokémons: SONIC. When he'll look like a hedgehog (after evolving into Sandslash), then it will be more fitting. xD I didn't check the route's name though, so I had to go back to the nearest PokéCenter to check it. Later it turned out that the desert route is the same area where I caught GOYLE, so SONIC was actually an illegal catch. >_>
"Oops."
Well that was quite unfortunate, but at least I could catch a new, legit pokémon in the Sand Tower. I went right back, but to my biggest surprise, the tower was gone. Now it started to make a lot more sense what the hiker said and I started getting worried that I may have wasted an opportunity to catch a new pokémon. D: I didn't really know what to do, so I decided to explore the rest of the area first.
This desert mainly had Sandshrews, Trapinches and Baltoys, but damn these Baltoys were dangerous. Not only they gave me the least exp out of all, but sometimes they also decided to blow up in my face.
(http://snag.gy/xkJis.jpg) (http://snag.gy/vHJO2.jpg)
ARGOR also almost left his teeth in a battle where the opposing wild Trapinch was armed with Dark-type moves, but I couldn't switch pokémons because of Arena Trap. Luckily ARGOR was strong enough to kill the opposition with a single Psybeam, but I learned not to start with ARGOR in this area.
(http://snag.gy/AczRw.jpg)
After a bit of levelling, SPORE wanted to learn Counter, but I decided not to teach it to him. I hope that it was the right decision. ^^"
(http://snag.gy/ICPkY.jpg)
GOYLE also didn't learn Rollout over Rock Throw when he had the opportunity.
After leaving and re-entering the area a few times, it was finally confirmed that the tower re-appears at random times. It was finally time to enter.~
(http://snag.gy/sl2mj.jpg)
I was hoping for a Sandshrew again, but this time I could only get a Trapinch. Laaame. :P
(http://snag.gy/BtsxW.jpg)
At least catching her was easy. The nickname-giving was a bit trickier, but I eventually gave her the name TRIPLETRAP, for reasons unknown. After that was done, Reynold proceeded to explore the tower, but on the second floor, a small puzzle awaited him. The floor was cracked where we needed to go through. Whenever I stepped on a cracked tile by foot, it collapsed and dropped me back to the first floor. I tried to jump through the cracks with my Acro Bike, but the ground crumbled below the Acro Bike too. I decided to give it a final try with the Mach Bike saying that if that also fails, then I give up, but luckily the Mach Bike was the key: I just needed to go fast, like Sonic.~
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/31/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Acro_Bike.png/200px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Acro_Bike.png) (http://snag.gy/wM02q.jpg) (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/0/0f/Mach_Bike_ORAS.png/revision/latest?cb=20140616174934)
On the top floor of the Tower, Reynold had to make a wise decision.
(http://snag.gy/w4tvF.jpg) (http://snag.gy/UMl3x.jpg) (http://snag.gy/wNY3s.jpg)
On the top floor, the existence of fossils in Emerald was finally 100% confirmed. I already heard about them from a scientist in Rustboro City, but now I could finally see one too. I got excited, because I have a special rule for fossils that enables me to keep the first one that I obtain (it didn't really matter this time if it was the first one or not, because the game told me that once I pick one, the other will become unavailable). I had to choose wisely though, because it was not mentioned what pokémons can these fossils turn into. I only knew their names: Root Fossil and Claw Fossil. I had a slight suspicion that the Root Fossil would turn into a grass type pokémon, which I already have 2 of. However, a Claw Fossil sounded exactly what I'm looking for, because whatever has a claw will probably be able to learn Cut!
Reynold then picked up the Claw Fossil, which resulted in the Tower collapsing, forever burying the Root Fossil under its rubble.
When I finally arrived in Rustboro to revive my new fossil, something unexpected happened. The egg that I received in Flannery Town (forgot the actual name) started hatching! To my biggest surprise, the egg turned into a baby Wynaut. I gave him the name WOBBLES, which suits him now, but will suit him even more if he ever evolves into a Wobbuffet. It turned out that WOBBLES was born by already knowing Splash, which is total useless, but after already seeing it on a Wailmer, I'm slowly getting used to it. ^^" I didn't make the decision to put WOBBLES in my party though, so the Nuzlocke Egg Rule is still an open question.
(http://snag.gy/KhPNV.jpg) (http://snag.gy/7smTW.jpg) (http://snag.gy/EBiFB.jpg)
I remembered right, and the scientist in the DEVON building could revive my Claw Fossil. :) The Claw Fossil turned into an Anorith, who I decided to call ANUBIS (it's a :time-themed name, so if we follow the EtG logic, then it fits). My hunch was right, we could finally learn Cut! :)
(http://static.pokemonpets.com/images/monsters-images-300-300/347-Anorith.png) (http://snag.gy/5jr8a.jpg)
After we could finally use Cut, I decided to backtrack the whole map starting from Oldale Town, looking for trees that I could use it on. I was minding my own business in Petalburg Woods when I bumped into a random NPC, who wanted to give me an item after she noticed that I have the Rustboro Gym's Badge. After the text was skipped though, I got nothing. What the... I tried again, then I noticed a text that I didn't see before.
(http://snag.gy/mNUFF.jpg)
So apparently your bag can become full? O_o That never happened to me in Diamond before. It became even more confusing some steps later when my Itemfinder told me that there is a Great Ball on the ground. I could easily pick it up, even though "MY BAG WAS FREAKIN' FULL, Y'KNOW!".
"How awkward it is when the game you play is playing games on you?"
I had to go back to a Pokémart and sell all the junk I collected (Stardusts, Tiny Mushrooms, Nuggets, Revives, in-battle stat boosters, etc).
As it was previously recommended in the comments, I finally went to receive my Black Flute when I was looking for trees on Route 113. I expected it to have the ability to spawn higher level pokémons in an area, but apparently it's just a renewable Repel: it gives 50% extra chance to keep wild pokémon away. I'm a bit confused about this, but I'll roll with this item, because there's no way that I'll do the requirements for a new flute again.
(http://snag.gy/rL8mv.jpg)
In the middle of my farting around, I was reminded what I needed to do to advance the game. I had to challenge our own dad next, Norman, the gym leader of Petalburg(?) City. It was nowhere mentioned what pokémon types he uses, so I went in to take a look. There I only challenged 1 gym trainer, who had a single Delcatty, so from that I assume that it will be a Normal type gym? ?_? Normal types have gyms now too? Oh, right. Whitney was a normal-type gym leader too, I'm just dumb. >_< (sometimes I think that Whitney is a Rock-type gym leader because of Rollout, but that is besides the point.)
"Dayum, this Delcatty doe! ARGOR almost lost his teeth for the second time in this episode."
(http://snag.gy/tAQH9.jpg) (http://snag.gy/5gibX.jpg)
At least I knew for sure that ARGOR was a bad choice against this gym if my opponents knew Dark-type attacks. Knowing this, I assembled an acceptable team against Normal-types, but I still needed to level them up first. It was time for another training montage!
At first I thought that EXODIA would be a good decision against this gym, but I quickly ditched the idea after I realized that he has no redeeming qualities against Normal types. At least I could level him up to evolve though. :)
(http://snag.gy/3nI5m.jpg) (http://snag.gy/OnreH.jpg)
Sadly the nearby areas were full of low-level pokémon, so I had to go back to the other side of the map again to be able to grind. On my way, I picked up an egg from the Day Care, so I had one less slot available.
To train, there were only 2 areas that had decently high level pokémons: Jagged Path with its Numels and the desert with its Sandshrews. Another reason why EXODIA couldn't participate in the next gym fight is because both training fields mobilized pokémons with ground-type attacks, which are super effective against Electric types. Even if I didn't use Electric types though, they still caused me headaches sometimes.
(http://snag.gy/2ueth.jpg)
While I was training in the desert, I encountered the area's rarest pokémon. Sadly it was too late to catch it though.
(http://snag.gy/27DOn.jpg)
After the training was over, my second egg hatched too!
(http://snag.gy/uQhnS.jpg) (http://snag.gy/BOAoH.jpg) (http://snag.gy/8iUZa.jpg)
I named this new Torkoal TWINTLE, because he's the twin (son, actually. Not twin) of my other fireturtle. :P I still didn't want to make the
Egg decision yet, so I just put the new Torkoal in the PC.
And that's it for now! I already have my team ready and trained for the upcoming gym. I learned from my previous mistakes, so hopefully I won't lose anyone important this time. ;) TURBULANCE, I'm fighting for you bro.~
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.31 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle |
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| | (http://www.legendarypokemon.net/images/dp_artwork/327.png) | Lv.30 SPOOLE, the Spinda (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Dizzy Punch | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psybeam | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Faint Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Hypnosis |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.30 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash |
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| | (http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/azumarill.png) | Lv.30 MAINERIE, the Azumarill (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Bubblebeam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rollout | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tail Whip |
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| (http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) | Lv.30 SPORE, the Breloom (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Mega Drain | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Mach Punch | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| | (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/338.png) | Lv.30 SOLARIS, the Solrock
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Confusion | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psywave | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) Toxic |
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If Black Flute works like Repel does, only Pokemon that are a higher level than your lead Pokemon will start an encounter with you, so, in a way, it does let you encounter higher leveled pokemon.
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I don't think it works like that. Its description only says that it lowers encounter chance by 50%.
Btw, I corrected some grammatical mistakes. If there is a part that's hard to understand, tell me and I'll fix it. ^^"
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taznkid, put that post in a Spoiler or delete it, he has not played Emerald before and is doing this blind, he doesn't want to know anything he doesn't already :)
I read your comment first, so I haven't read the post above yours yet. ^^" Is it a spoiler about something that's coming soon or about something that affects the entire game? He doesn't need to delete it, it's just enough to put it in a spoiler and name it to "SPOILER: Don't Read!" or something. :)
Btw, new update being posted soon~
I apologize for the post (now deleted). I did not know that even evolution paths were going to be spoilers.
Having said that, I'm glad you caught a Trapinch for my own reasons~
Train Tripletrap plz :D
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I apologize for the post (now deleted). I did not know that even evolution paths were going to be spoilers.
Having said that, I'm glad you caught a Trapinch for my own reasons~
Train Tripletrap plz :D
Don't worry about it. :) I don't know which evolution line you mentioned, but I already played a Gen 4 pokémon game, so I know at least some of the stuff. I was accidently spoiled lately that Swablu will evolve into a dual dragon type and that Loudred will evolve into Exploud. Other than that, everything is pretty unknown. ^^" But if I ever catch a pokémon that needs an Evolutionary stone, then don't hesitate to tell me. :) So far I have a Dusk(?) Stone and a Fire Stone, which I don't know what they are good for.
I'll give a chance to Trapinch later. So far I'm in a bit of a trouble against Norman. x_x I might need to do some changes to the main rules, so in case I black out, but I have at least 6 other pokémons in the PC, then it's not instant Game Over. What do you (all my followers) think about this rule change?
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Weak.
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While I'm here, I'm gonna do a quick update about what happened already.
The bird of death was sighted on the horizon. Letting it nest would be a mistake.
So last time we were ready to enter Norman's gym. The first gym trainer was already defeated, who had a lv.25 Delcatty in the Speed Room if I'm not mistaken. Next up was the Healing Room, where my opponent had a lv.26 Slakoth. This battle was not particularly difficult, but it made me realize that I miscalculated what level pokémons will Norman have and I might have underleveled my pokémons again by 1 or 2 stages.
After dealing with the Healing Room's trainer, I was notified that the next room is called the One-Hit KO room.
I almost entered the next room when I suddenly realized that entering that room might not be the brightest idea in a Nuzlocke, so I turned around.
The next destination was the Defense room, where I gave a chance to SPORE to deal with the opponent's Wigglytuff. That battle was almost getting hot, but it was nothing that SPORE couldn't handle. Next up was the Attack room, where I decided to give a go to SPOOLE. The opponent had a very fast Zangoose who kept using Sword Dance, which repeatedly raised his attack slightly. I knew that SPOOLE is not the kind to just one-hit the opponent, so I tried using Hypnosis as much as I could. In hindsight, I should have used Dizzy Punch, because it could have caused confusion while also dealing damage. Confusion works better on opponents with high Attack power, because they deal more damage to themselves.
However, Hypnosis failed me 3 times in a row, while Zangoose's attack immensely grew. Not only that, but his first attack was also a critical hit, so SPOOLE stood no chance. He died in a single shot. RIP SPOOLE. Now I need to decide who can take his place and I also need to level everyone up by at least 1 stage.
Tribute and video comes later, I'm not at home at the moment.
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Don't worry about it. :) I don't know which evolution line you mentioned, but I already played a Gen 4 pokémon game, so I know at least some of the stuff. I was accidently spoiled lately that Swablu will evolve into a dual dragon type and that Loudred will evolve into Exploud. Other than that, everything is pretty unknown. ^^" But if I ever catch a pokémon that needs an Evolutionary stone, then don't hesitate to tell me. :) So far I have a Dusk(?) Stone and a Fire Stone, which I don't know what they are good for.
I'll give a chance to Trapinch later. So far I'm in a bit of a trouble against Norman. x_x I might need to do some changes to the main rules, so in case I black out, but I have at least 6 other pokémons in the PC, then it's not instant Game Over. What do you (all my followers) think about this rule change?
O the spoiler was about Swablu since I'm a big fan of that next evo lol (I dislike how there are not really any go-to Stage 2 Flying evos in Gen 3)
As for evolution items, I'm fairly certain that you are fine; off the top of my head the only pokemon with item related evolution in Generation 3 is Clamperl (and it has to be traded too at that). So if you want some pocket money or something of the sort I'm sure you will be fine selling those off (unless you have a Thunderstone for a Raichu or something).
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Liplop needs a Water Stone to evolve, but beware: It will not learn any more attacks by level-up once it evolved.
Do never sell evolutionary stones; while you can get more in Emerald, it takes some effort, and they aren't worth much in the market anyway.
About the revival thing:
Tough decision. On the pro side of having the restriction, you have to plan harder and heavy battles get more exciting. On the con side, one underestimated opponent could immediately mean game-over, ending the series.
Overall, I think the middle way could be a good solution, meaning you can revive once, and only once. Your pokémon still "die", but you can continue with a disadvantage, and making this possible only once, a "death" still hurts hard. To keep it heavy, you can also add some further penalties, like throwing all medicine and money away or something the like. I am also fine with hardcore, as Nuzlocke is usually played, just the easy variant with more than one revival seems bad, as it lenghthens a practically lost game too much.
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How about allowing him to use any Revives he finds (not buys) on THAT Pokemon ONCE (so you cannot revive a KO'ed Pokemon twice)? Even then I think that's maybe like 2-3 Revives at best from memory.
Either way I would prefer whatever method such that the quest to become the very best does not suddenly end abruptly and in a unsatisfying/awkward manner~
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Yesterday everything I wrote was deleted after I put my computer in sleep mode, but it decided to turn the power off instead. I didn't even have the chance to save it, so this is a second version that you are reading. This is nowhere in quality compared to the first version, but I hope you'll enjoy it!
I decided to play it Hardcore and train harder for now. This time the blackout was successfully avoided, even if it wasn't a perfect dodge against death's claws. (If I die before the champion though, I'll bring up the question again ^^") But let's see, what exactly caused Reynold and his team to be more cautious?
You can check the video of 'impending danger' here: https://youtu.be/tiHiXhfKIvQ
(https://cdn.scratch.mit.edu/static/site/users/avatars/390/1278.png)
The loss of SPOOLE was unfortunate, but it already happened and it had to be accepted. His defeat opened my eyes though: I had to change strategies if I wanted to succeed in this gym. If they keep attacking with brute force, I just need to apply status effects, lower their hitrates and remove their precious buffs. PANDORA had all of these in one, so she became the perfect replacement for SPOOLE in my party.
After training my pokémons to level 31 (they were at level 30 before, PANDORA was at 26), we were finally ready to face Dad. This was Reynold's final chance to become a real man.
Fifth Gym Battle: Leader Norman AKA Dad!(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5b61389c095eb58b9b65858282aeb0f9/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko5_r3_400.gif)
You can watch this epic battle between father and son here:
First Matchup: Lv.31 MAINERIE vs Lv.27 SPINDA. Before the battle, I ordered my pokémons based on their Defense stats. I planned to start with the lowest Defense guy to then gradually move upwards as the opponents get stronger. When I was done with ordering though, a new strategy was noticed: Rollout! If you don't know what Rollout is, it's a Rock-type move that starts out weak, but keeps getting stronger and stronger for 5 turns. Its biggest drawback though is that once you used Rollout, you cannot switch out or use a different move until one of you die or the attack misses.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iREVgLCDiXA/TWneCO91dnI/AAAAAAAAD6A/0XjIjDqS15I/s320/azumarill.png)
When SPINDA fainted, MAINERIE could already build up 3 stages of Rollout. Usually the fourth and fifth stages are superstrong attacks, especially if the opposing pokémon is lower level than us, which was exactly the case here. Second Matchup: Lv.31 MAINERIE vs Lv.27 VIGOROTH. I was ready to unleash the immense power of a Miltank with my next attack.
"MAINERIE used Rollout!"
Too bad! "MAINERIE's attack missed". Goddammit! So much for all that buildup. Now MAINERIE was down to half her HP, but I could maaaybe still get a Bubblebeam through without she dying. You can check the video footage that I actually hesitated long here before making the decision to attack. Luckily nothing terrible happened, so next turn she could pass the baton to SPORE.
Nex turn with SPORE, I'm not entirely sure why I decided to use Leech Seed over Mach Punch, but it didn't really matter, because my attack missed. At this point, it was apparent that VIGOROTH has higher than usual Speed and Evasion, so I had to switch to attacking. However, my move was still not Mach Punch, so VIGOROTH could go before me and use Encore. He basically rendered SPORE useless and I had to switch him out. -_- (For those who are new, Encore is a move that makes the opponent repeat his last used move until he is switched out. The problem here was that SPORE was encored to use Leech Seed, but Leech Seed can be only used once on the same target.)
(http://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/dream-world/288.svg) VS (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iREVgLCDiXA/TWneCO91dnI/AAAAAAAAD6A/0XjIjDqS15I/s320/azumarill.png) (http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) (http://pre10.deviantart.net/66da/th/pre/i/2013/082/5/e/259_marshtomp_by_pklucario-d5z1h88.png)
VIGOROTH was only his second pokémon, but I was already forced to switch in a third opponent for him. Following the Defense-ladder that I set up, MYRIONITE seemed to be the best one to continue. However, VIGOROTH being an elusive foe, MYRIONITE's next attack missed. - Drat! But at least Leech Seed was still in effect, so at least some damage was done. For the next attack, there was no fooling around. It was time to use our strongest attack.
"MYRIONITE used Mud Shot! VIGOROTH ate mud."
"Bonus! VIGOROTH's speed fell too!"
But damn, he's still not dead yet and it's not even sure that we'll start the next turn! We could only lower his health to the redzone, so I was preparing myself for another turn. Before I could react though, the game reminded me that Leech Seed was still in effect. The damage from Leech Seed was just enough to sap VIGOROTH's last health points, so VIGOROTH was finally defeated. It was still not over, though!
Third matchup: Lv.31 SPORE vs Lv.29 LINOONE. SPORE still had enough HP to take on an opponent, so it was his time to shine again. We didn't fart around this time, Mach Punch for the win! It was pretty impressive, because it almost took down all of LINOONE's health. I could have attempted to finish him right away with another Mach Punch, but seeing that Norman didn't use any of his healing potions yet, I wanted to lure at least one out in this battle. Sadly neither did he use one nor could I let SPORE take another hit after that, so a Mach Punch on the third turn finished the deal.
It was finally time to see the big boss.
Final matchup: Lv.31 SOLARIS vs Lv.31 SLAKING! SOLARIS was not exactly the type to put up a fight against brute force, but I learned a lesson and I had a strategy. I expected SOLARIS to survive the first hit, because Normal-type attacks were not very effective against Rock-type pokémons, but then something happened that I didn't expect at all: Faint Attack. SLAKING moved first and I knew that it was going to be super effective, so I got very nervous. Luckily SOLARIS could survive the hit, so we were given the chance to initiate our final strategy: Toxic. Toxic applies poison damage to the opponent that gets stronger and stronger as time goes on. It's like Rollout, except that it doesn't stop, it cannot miss and it ignores type resistances. After Toxic was successfully used, SOLARIS was switched out to PANDORA, my second hidden weapon. I might have given SLAKING a free turn with my switchout though, but it didn't matter because he didn't do anything (he just loafed around). The turn after that, though, SLAKING used Yawn, so I was once again forced to switch (Yawn makes the opponent fall asleep next turn, unless switched out). My only guy in good enough shape was GOYLE, so I sent him out to finish the job. The poison on SLAKING was already strong and his hitrate was also lowered, not to mention that his strongest moves were not very effective against GOYLE. He could still use a desperate Faint Attack, but then GOYLE successfully hit level 10 of Magnitude, which was enough to end the deal.
Well done, Reynold! :) You have finally become a true man.
(http://snag.gy/IEvmf.jpg)
For SPOOLE:
SPOOLE, the Spinda: Lv.15-30, from Route 113. Died by STRENGHT ROOM’s trainer’s Lv.26 Zangoose. After 2 Swords Dances, critical Slash was 1-hit KO. Your name was inspired by Spoole from Funhaus. You and MICHAEL shared names of similar origins and now you are both gone.
(http://snag.gy/bdKFs.jpg)
"Bye-Bye SPOOLE! May you rest in peace."
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.31 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.31 PANDORA, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swagger | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Roar | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.31 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash |
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| | (http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/azumarill.png) | Lv.31 MAINERIE, the Azumarill (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Bubblebeam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rollout | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tail Whip |
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| (http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) | Lv.31 SPORE, the Breloom (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Mega Drain | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Mach Punch | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| | (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/338.png) | Lv.31 SOLARIS, the Solrock
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Confusion | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Cosmic Power | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) Toxic |
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I wonder if Slaking's Facade, boosted by poison, would've OTKed PANDORA (Slaking's ATK is even higher than Mewtwo's Spc. Atk. ^^). Without Intimidate for sure, but with... well, lucky he didn't use it. You deserved that luck, after all those misses earlier in the match, especially with Roll Out.
Btw, Encore doesn't force your pokémon to use that move for forever, but for 2-6 turns (in Gen III). Didn't make a difference, just to point it out.
Overall, good strategy, although it seems you didn't know Facade's ability, as you took a second when your father told you after the battle. ;) I can't wait for the next gym fight, it is getting intense.
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Weird, I thought Slaking learned a different ability than Truant :o (Truant is what caused him to "loaf around" ^^)
GG WP, "Dad"! ;)
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"Today we surf!"
Last time we successfully unlocked Surf! I didn't really know where to go with it, so I backtracked all areas and surfed in every lake I found. The areas I could visit were mostly off-limits to catch a new pokémon, so it took me a while to find a new teammate. The first available area was Route 115, where I could finally catch a new water-dweller. :)
(http://snag.gy/mnnZz.jpg) (http://snag.gy/0272z.jpg)
Tentacruels are awesome tanks, so I'm looking forward to use TWISTER in the future. I didn't have much luck with other areas though. When I turned right from Slateport, I could catch a Wingull, which was probably a very bad decision. Why was it a bad decision? - you may ask. Well, because I explored that area before exploring the southern water routes from Slateport across Dewford to Petalburg, which had nothing else just Wingulls and Tentacools. (I have a rule that allows me to skip pokémons that I already have, so I just kept skipping them in order to encounter something rarer, which never came.) I explored even the most hidden corners of those routes, but in the end, I got nothing new. I'm thinking about reserving these areas to catch higher-level pokémons of the same kind to avoid long trainings, but I haven't decided yet. Maybe more pokémon will be available if I start fishing in these areas with a better fishing rod (current rod: Old Rod).
"Today we visit creepy places!"
During my swimming times, I visited some places that would have been perfect habitats for Ghost-type pokémons. For example this shipwreck that was just lying in the middle of the sea. Sadly it was neither abandoned nor a place where ghost-type pokémons lived. It was actually very lively, full of tourists who were looking for hidden treasures. I looted what I could, but it seems like 'Diving' will be necessary to reach areas where pokémons spawn, which I don't have yet (I wonder if it will be a new HM or a Key Item).
(http://snag.gy/Ugv7b.jpg)
I heard rumors of the second creepy area when I was strolling through Mauville City. I was on my way to look for good surfing spots, when I noticed a familiar face standing in the middle of a junction. It was Mauville's Gym Leader, Wattson. I expected a request for a rematch, but he had something else in mind; He wanted me to do him a favor.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a0/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Wattson.png/150px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Wattson.png)
According to Wattson, there is an experimental city under Mauville, called New-Mauville. He said that the generator in New-Mauville is causing problems, so he wanted me to go in and shut it down. I'm questioning the reasoning behind his request, but I'll do anything for a new adventure.
Was Wattson just standing in the middle of the street, asking strangers all day to do him a favor or did I really come at the right time? I could theoretically just walk past him, completely skipping his sidequest.
(http://snag.gy/Foto0.jpg)
On my way to New-Mauville, I found a small island with a sign. Instead of Trainer Tips tough, this sign had graffities on it from Team Aqua and Team Magma. Other than reading the sign, this small island was only good for building a tree base.
(http://snag.gy/4nu6r.jpg) (http://snag.gy/qDGFl.jpg)
The entrance was a sinister looking cave, which led to the creepy halls of New-Mauville. Ghost-type pokémons were expected again, but sadly this place was home for a different pokémon type. (but at least the incoming type was expected too)
(http://snag.gy/3xxjB.jpg) (http://snag.gy/hKFdn.jpg)
"Just 3 steps and a new encounter!"
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/6/63/100Voltorb_Dream.png/revision/latest?cb=20141105043800) (http://snag.gy/rDJxu.jpg) (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/the-andy-x-challenge/images/6/63/082.png/revision/latest?cb=20140507150033)
"Oh crap! What if it Selfdestructs?"
I was facing a dilemma; I could catch this Voltorb now, but if it knows Selfdestruct or Explosion, then not only would I lose Voltorb, but the damage would probably kill LIPLOP too, who was my first pokémon in the row. I could use Fake Out on first turn, but I had to risk using a Great Ball on the second. It was a lucky catch. ^^" Welcome to the team, VORTEX! Hmm, VORTEX... On second thoughts, I'd like to rename you to VELOCITY, but the Name Rater is too far away to turn back now (when the idea of the name change came to my mind, I was already far far away).
After catching him, I was unsure how I felt about VORTEX. I already had a mono Electric-type, so we weren't covering much more ground. Oh well, at least one of them can be replacement in the future. Right after catching VORTEX, my second encounter was with the area's rarest pokémon, MAGNETON. MAGNETON would have been much more useful with its Steel-Electric dual type, so I became a bit jealous.
(http://snag.gy/LWTxd.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Voue9.jpg)
While advancing through the halls of New-Mauville, I could see a lot of pokéballs scattered in the area. Some of them were just hidden Voltorbs, but at least none of them knew Selfdestruct yet. Some more Voltorbs later I could finally find the generator and turn it off. But maaan, this generator was massive!
(http://snag.gy/6Ttp5.jpg) (http://snag.gy/L5BQx.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Mh6oT.jpg)
"Today we catch and train new pokémon!"
That's right! New areas and new pokémons. I already told you about TWISTER, VORTEX and a random Wingull in today's episode, but I also caught a Linoone and an Oddish when I was visiting new areas. Our new teammates are:
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/072.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/39/278Wingull.png/250px-278Wingull.png) (http://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/dream-world/264.svg) (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/6/63/100Voltorb_Dream.png/revision/latest?cb=20141105043800) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/43/043Oddish.png/250px-043Oddish.png)
TWISTER, the Tentacool.
WINTER, the Wingull.
VORTEX, the Voltorb.
LIANEE, the Linoone.
ONI-ANN, the Oddish.
My favorite of them is VORTEX so far, for several reasons. When I started to train him, I learned that his base Speed is incredible! He was still 5 levels below others, but his Speed was already higher than 100, while my higher level mons had only around 80. When reaching level 30, I could even get to evolve him! :)
(http://snag.gy/yyVMd.jpg) (http://snag.gy/RYmS4.jpg)
"VORTEX also taught me that Voltorbs can be funny. He wanted to tell me a joke."
(http://snag.gy/xaJJA.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/2HySk.jpg)
"Today we meet and fight other trainers!"
Wattson was just the tip of the iceberg. While exploring both old and new areas, it was inevitable to bump into other trainers. Some of them just wanted to fight, while others gave me items and/or directions. There was only one particular trainer though who gave me an item and deserves a mention: the Fisherman who finally gave me the Good Rod. :)
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this Good Rod!"
(http://snag.gy/KjdN6.jpg)
The rest of the NPCs were less docile, as they mostly just wanted to battle. The opposition is getting stronger as we move forward, as instead of schoolgirls, young boys and bug catchers, we now meet more and more ace trainers (cooltrainers in Emerald), ninja boys, psychics, karate girls and even this dude:
(http://snag.gy/yeFA2.jpg)
"Dude already looks like a gym leader. Was also fighting like one."
It's no joke. Expert Timothy's Hariyama only used Fake-Out on ARGOR (which I believe is weaker than Tackle), but it could still take down almost half of ARGOR's HP! :o And even after that, Hariyama didn't die of ARGOR's Pysbeam in one shot. Luckily next turn ARGOR was the faster, so he could finish the deal with a second Psybeam, but Timothy's Hariyama was still a remarkable opponent.
(http://snag.gy/t6Tp5.jpg)
As we advance forward, the opposing pokémons are getting more intimidating too. Hariyama was just the beginning, then came a flock of Skarmories, Tentacruels, Gyaradoses, etc. Some of these guys even look like Legendaries! Like this Tropius, who I believe would be perfect as a "mystical guardian of rainforests".
(http://snag.gy/YjCq2.jpg) (http://snag.gy/bLtOy.jpg)
"Random NPCs should really stop jumping at me."
(http://snag.gy/D8lrT.jpg)
"Oh, wait, should I know you?"
(http://snag.gy/X6yAX.jpg)
So now not only an NPC called Scott, but also an NPC called Steven is following me. I'm not sure what any of them wants, but if I have any clue, one of them will be my secret ally later on (or even the champion), while the other is the leader of a secret crime organization. Or at least this is how Diamond introduced Flint, Cynthia and Cyrus to me in the past.
"Hey Reynold! Your EXODIA and TERAFUZE has laid an egg last day!"
"No shit, it's their fourth egg this week already."
(http://snag.gy/C5pKd.jpg)
Question of the day: Was it a good or a bad decision to not teach ARGOR Future Sight?
His moveset contained Psybeam, Reflect, Disable and Recover at the time. It was only slightly better than Psybeam, so I thought that while I'm waiting, I could just spam Psybeams and get instant effects.
(http://snag.gy/L438d.jpg)
"Tomorrow we visit the Weather Institution!"
This is where I leave off today. I noticed that some Team Aqua grunts are guarding the place, so I suspect that even more battles are waiting for me inside. Next time I'll try to advance the plot and get to the next gym leader. But for now, Reynold needs some rest.
Peace off! :)
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.31 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.31 PANDORA, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swagger | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Roar | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.35 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Throw | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash |
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| | (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/de/101Electrode_AG_Anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20141208030807) | Lv.32 VORTEX, the Electrode
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Sonicboom | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Screech |
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| (http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) | Lv.31 SPORE, the Breloom (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Mega Drain | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Mach Punch | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| | (http://i.imgur.com/DhFcLjH.png) | Lv.32 ARGOR, the Kadabra (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psybeam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Reflect | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Recover | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Disable |
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"In this episode, we learn how to lose 2 of your pokémons in a short period of time!"
That's right, I did dun goofed. How it happened, however, is more dumb than tragic, so the explanation won't be very spectacular. Before I get to it though, let's continue where Reynold left off last time.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/db/Weather_Institute_E.png)
"Today we visit the Weather Institute*!"
As I predicted, there were some Team Aqua grunts inside the Institute who were up to no good. SPORE had no problem against their Sharpedos and Poochyenas, though Zubats still caused some headaches. On the second floor, I had the pleasure to meet the Admin of Team Aqua, Shelly. When our battle started, I was wondering if I should have started recording, but I soon realized that there's no need, because all her pokémons were weak against SPORE, which lead a pretty quick victory.
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/319.png) (http://snag.gy/r61gw.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/d8mbFgD.png)
After Shelly was defeated, her grunts told her that some Magma dudes were spotted somewhere nearby, so they quickly fled. After they left the scene, the scientists who were held captive before ran straight up to me and INSTANTLY offered me a new pokémon as reward, no beating around the bush whatsoever. o_O Well, in a Nuzlocke, new pokémons are always nice to have and the Institute is a new area in itself, so I accepted their offer. :D The received pokémon was a Castform, a weather pokémon who changes forms (and probably types) with the weather.
(http://snag.gy/69pAm.jpg) (http://snag.gy/UzjIW.jpg)
(the second image was taken much later; it shows what Castform transforms into when it's raining)
"Sure I'll gave a nickname to Castform!"
The Castform I received was female, so I had to think about a female nickname that starts with C. I found one that has a nice ring to it, even though it's from an entirely different franchise: CHELL. CHELL had mainly weather changing moves and only 1 actual attack, so I didn't feel like training her yet. I'm just looking for the right opportunity.~ (or Apertunity, if we stick with the theme. I feel bad after making this pun. ^^")
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Chell.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a0/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_May.png/180px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_May.png)
Soon after leaving the Weather Institute, May jumped at me with her bike out of nowhere. Since it was a surprise encounter, I already knew that it's going to be a battle. My hunch was right.
Fourth Rival Battle: Pokémon Trainer May!
(http://snag.gy/vwSnO.jpg)
This time it didn't really matter that it was a surprise encounter, because I was mostly healed up. I was expecting her dreaded Wingull to show up, but somehow she lost it. >_> Instead of 4, she only had 3 pokémons now, which was strange. If she was going easy on me, that would explain why I beat her so easily this time. I expected a battle as difficult as it was last time, so I recorded the whole thing.
You can check the video of our battle here: https://youtu.be/ifURKqN5rAA
SPORE was shining in this battle too, handling almost everything alone. After May was beaten, Reynold received the HM for FLY, which is awesome. Though I couldn't use it yet, because first I had to obtain the Gym Badge from Fortree City. May then left, but the cutscene was still not over! From the direction where May headed, Scott came out of nowhere just to acknowledge how strong I am.
Okay, so I didn't realize at first that Scott and Steven might be important characters later, so I just skipped them every time. But now they showed up for the tenth time (altogether), so I should quickly summarize to the audience what I learned about them so far:
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/b/bc/Emerald_Scott.png/130px-Emerald_Scott.png) | SCOTT
- We first met Scott in Petalburg City.
- He has to do something with the Rustboro Trainer School.
(I met him there and it looked like he was a mentor of some sort) - He is travelling across the world, looking for strong trainers.
- Reynold is one of the trainers he is following.
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(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3f/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Steven.png/200px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Steven.png) | STEVEN
- We first met Steven in Granite Cave, while delivering a letter to him.
- He collects rare stones, but mostly fossils.
- He is the son of the leader of the Devon Corporation.
- His favorite pokémon move is Steel Wing.
- He trains rare and extremely strong pokémons, according to a NPC.
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After looking through the informations about Steven, I realized that I already saw him earlier. Long time ago, I actually read that Steven was a champion in one of the games, but it was such an old memory that I forgot it and it took me this long to link the 2 things together. I'm a bit sad though that I learned this before the finale, because these are the best plot twists in pokémon games: you have that one random NPC who keeps helping you out everywhere you go, and in the end it turns out that he/she was the champion all along!
(they did a good job with Cynthia in Diamond)
"Oh hi Steven! I was just talking about you."
I might have jumped forward in time again, but not so long after speaking with an NPC in Fortree City about Steven and how strong he was, Steven showed up again. He didn't say anything important, so let's just skip that part, shall we? ^^"
(http://snag.gy/Kqmey.jpg) (http://snag.gy/DX86Z.jpg) (http://snag.gy/ea7sX.jpg)
After some trainer fights, we could finally reach Fortree City, where almost all houses were on trees. I wanted to check out the local gym, but freakin' Kecleons were blocking my way, so I proceeded to stock up on Super Potions and headed to the next route. By the time I received a key item to get rid of the Kecleons, I was already far away from Fortree, so I decided to continue going until I can. I was amused at how far I could go by completely skipping the Fortree Gym, but then I finally realized that maybe it IS optional. I already reached the next town (Lilycove City) and the game still let me go further. I even found May again, who was giving me the chance for an optional rival battle, but I just beat her in the beginning of this episode, so I figured that I trekked way too far and I need to turn back. (I rejected May's offer for now, but she'll be there later)
It was a long way between Fortree and Lilycove, so it is only natural that we caught new teammates on our way.
My PC is getting full of pokémons that I still need to use, so I'm not giving much importance to the new guys yet. They deserve being mentioned though, so here they are:
(http://snag.gy/cmnOp.jpg) (http://snag.gy/U3z7y.jpg)
I wasn't very excited about Seedot, because I'm pretty sure that SPORE is a more useful Grass-type than her. Replacements are never bad to have though. Shuppet on the other hand is a unique catch; my very first Ghost-type pokémon in Emerald. :) He looks kinda weak now, though, so I'm also taking him away for later.
But now something different. Giving the nicknames for these 2 new pokémons started a chain reaction. Naming Shuppet was relatively easy (though not very imaginative), he now lives by the name SHINIGAMI. When naming Seedot though, I remembered that I had a Wingull in the PC that was called WINTER. I wanted to go with the theme, so I called Seedot SPRING. (SOLARIS could have been SUMMER and then we would only need an AUTUMN to get all 4 seasons.) When I wanted to check WINTER and SPRING in my PC to write down their catching locations, I noticed something in my rules that made me feel really dumb. Namely:
- In every new area, only the first encountered Pokémon can be caught. If the first encountered Pokémon dies or runs away, you fail to get a Pokémon from there.
- Exception: No duplicates. If the first encountered Pokémon is already present in your team, you can choose to run away again and again until you find one you don't have. The Pokémon who you don't want to catch must not die or flee before you can run away.
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Well, this is awkward, but I remembered my own rules incorrectly. I thought that I allowed myself to kill duplicates, so I didn't bother with fleeing before. Now it turns out though, that all areas where I killed a duplicate before catching a new pokémon became off-limits before I could catch an actual different pokémon. And yeah, remember in the beginning of the episode where I said that I'm gonna lose 2 pokémons in a really dumb way? Well, this is what I was talking about.
"Who did I lose then?" - you may ask. For a start, I lost access to ONI-ANN, the Oddish, which is a shame, because I just obtained a Leaf Stone which could have evolved her from Gloom if I could even train her to that point. >_< About the second pokémon, I'm not a hundred percent sure WHICH was the illegal catch, but I know that it's either TWISTER the Tentacool or WINTER the Wingull. For now, I put WINTER in a different PC Box, but TWISTER is too far away in the Day Care, so I'm gonna leave him/her alone until I can use FLY.
All my other pokémons should be legit, so don't worry. ^^" We still have more than necessary. With this however, I not only got one nickname further from completing a set of season-related nicknames, but I was also narrowed down to a single Flying-type pokémon who can learn Fly: SWOOSH, the Swablu.
The recent areas didn't lack rare encounters, but sadly I failed to catch any of them. First in the area where I (shouldn't have) caught ONI-ANN, I met a wild Tropius. Twice! At least they gave me a nice amount of EXP for beating them. ^^"
My next rare encounter was Absol, who I heard rumors about before I started this game. From what I know, Absol is a non-evolving Dark-type pokémon who's really strong. However, before I learned about its typing, I always thought that Absol is an Ice-type, because just look at him. He has white fur and stuff! o_o Seriously, whose idea was it to make a dark-type pokémon look like this? It makes no sense.
(http://snag.gy/ZCLQI.jpg)
Next up we will face WINONA, the Flying-type gym leader!
The developers of the game probably ran out of puns at this point. Roxanne's name was hiding "rocks" in its pronounciation, Brawly's name was straight up referring to fighting, Wattson's name referred to watts, which we use when measuring electricity. Flannery's name was a pun for flames and Norman was only one letter away from Normal. This time however, I fail to catch why WINONA would suggest flying or air. Maybe it's supposed to be a pun for wind or something (?).
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/96/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Winona.png/250px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Winona.png)
One thing is for sure, though. So far all the female gym leaders caused me trouble (mostly by being underlevelled), and seeing how WINONA is (probably) female too, I decided to train my pokémons 1-2 levels higher than normally. So far I mostly expect dual Flying-types with Normal (Swellow, Swablu), Water (Wingull, Pelipper, maybe Gyarados), Steel (Skarmory), Psychic (Natu), Grass (Tropius) and Dragon (Swablu's evolution). With the exception of Tropius (and maybe a surprise pokémon that I haven't met so far), EXODIA and VORTEX should be able to handle this gym just fine with their Electric-type moves. For offensive support, I also prepared GOYLE and SOLARIS to fight, because of their Rock-type moves. For strategic support, I chose PANDORA and MAINERIE to help me out. This way, even if WINONA plans to use Attract like Flannery did, it will be useless against 4 of my pokémons.
For the last empty slot, I could have chosen MYRIONITE over MAINERIE, but while I neglected training MYRIONITE further than level 32, MAINERIE jumped to level 38 in the Day Care, which is already higher than any other pokémons I have. This will be the first gym where MYRIONITE won't be in my party, so I'm a bit sad for him. There's one thing I noticed about the Day Care though. Before signing MAINERIE in, her Sp.Attack was way higher than MYRIONITE's, but after taking her out, her Sp.Attack was worse than what pokémons have at 5 levels under. This is something I also seemed to notice in Diamond, but I was never sure about it.
QUESTION OF THE DAY!
Is the Day Care training your pokémons weaker than they would get during actual training?
On the same topic, if anyone knows how the Macho Brace works, how does it work exactly and when is it worth to be used?
End of Day party stats:
| (http://img07.deviantart.net/bec6/i/2013/089/d/1/manectric_by_dragonciaw-d5zvfa0.png) | Lv.38 EXODIA, the Manectric (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunderbolt | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder Wave | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Roar |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.37 PANDORA, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swagger | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.37 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Blast | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Tomb |
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| | (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/de/101Electrode_AG_Anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20141208030807) | Lv.37 VORTEX, the Electrode
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rollout | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Screech |
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| (http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/azumarill.png) | Lv.39 MAINERIE, the Azumarill (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double-Edge | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Bubblebeam | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rollout | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tail Whip |
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| | (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/338.png) | Lv.37 SOLARIS, the Solrock
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Slide | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Confusion | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Cosmic Power | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) Toxic |
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Moon Stone, Fire Stone, Thunderstone, Leaf Stone, (Everstone).
ARGOR, the Kadabra.
WILSON, the Loudred.
SWOOSH, the Swablu.
LIPLOP, the Lombre.
SHINIGAMI, the Shuppet.
CHELL, the Castform.
SPORE, the Breloom.
LIANEE, the Linoone.
TERAFUZE, the Torkoal.
MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp.
ANUBIS, the Anorith.
SPRING, the Seedot.
TRIPLETRAP, the Trapinch.
WINTER, the Wingull.
TWISTER, the Tentacool.
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So, because of IV/EV's day care training is less effective then normal training, unless you give it the zinc's carboses, hp ups, and stuff like that excluding PP up. You know what the IV's and EV's of a pokemon are right?
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You know what the IV's and EV's of a pokemon are right?
Not really. o_O
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You know what the IV's and EV's of a pokemon are right?
Not really. o_O
I'm no expert on this, so take this with a grain of salt.
Basically, IV/EV refer to a certain system of how points are distributed when leveling up. This is determined by what Pokemon your Pokemon beat the shit out of before leveling up. For example, on Youtube's ScrewAttack's Death Battle series, they ascertain the general stat ranges of Ash's Pikachu based on the Pokemon it beat up. The vast majority were determined to be the Spearows the two encountered on like Episode 1 or 2 of the Anime, and Spearows give that "point" towards the Speed stat. Consequently, it was determined that Ash's Pikachu had a above average Speed stat compared to Pikachus of similar level.
For competitive battlers, they take IV/EV training very seriously to max out the potential of their Pokemon as much as possible; this includes taking into account a Pokemon's Nature (which influences increases or decreases in certain stats), and the Pokemon they fight, so that the Pokemon in question gains as much Points in stats beneficial to its desired moveset when leveling up, while avoiding wasting any of those potential points in unneeded stats.
An example would be someone training up a Fighting Pokemon's Attack stat, since most of its moves are probably going to be Physical, by leveling up off of Pokemon that give those "points" in those stats. Now, how people calculate what Pokemon/Trainers give what, and how its the most efficient, etc. is all beyond me.
Macho Brace works by decreasing the amount of work needed to get that "point". A certain amount of IV/EV "points" are needed to translate into 1 Stat point, but a Macho Brace, if I remember correctly, divides that amount in half.
In conclusion, to answer your Day Care question: Day Care is a terrible way of leveling up your Pokemon, as it misses out on those IV/EV points. I'm under the impression it is mostly used for breeding. On the other hand, EXP Share does not; the points are neither divided nor removed, both Pokemon receiving EXP get full amount of said points.
TL;DR: Leveling Pokemon up by fighting Pokemon is better than Day Care, and Macho Brace allows your Pokemon to have better stat increases when leveling up.
In other news, I got so into your playthrough that I began playing Pokemon Diamond. Currently I have a Empoleon, Luxray, and Starraptor at level 45, and am currently hard at work training my Sneasel and Gible to get there (it's going to be a while...Sneasel is only level 32 and Gible is freaking level 21!!!). I haven't even gotten to getting the Riolu egg, let alone training it....
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You know what the IV's and EV's of a pokemon are right?
Not really. o_O
I'm no expert on this, so take this with a grain of salt.
Basically, IV/EV refer to a certain system of how points are distributed when leveling up. This is determined by what Pokemon your Pokemon beat the shit out of before leveling up. For example, on Youtube's ScrewAttack's Death Battle series, they ascertain the general stat ranges of Ash's Pikachu based on the Pokemon it beat up. The vast majority were determined to be the Spearows the two encountered on like Episode 1 or 2 of the Anime, and Spearows give that "point" towards the Speed stat. Consequently, it was determined that Ash's Pikachu had a above average Speed stat compared to Pikachus of similar level.
For competitive battlers, they take IV/EV training very seriously to max out the potential of their Pokemon as much as possible; this includes taking into account a Pokemon's Nature (which influences increases or decreases in certain stats), and the Pokemon they fight, so that the Pokemon in question gains as much Points in stats beneficial to its desired moveset when leveling up, while avoiding wasting any of those potential points in unneeded stats.
An example would be someone training up a Fighting Pokemon's Attack stat, since most of its moves are probably going to be Physical, by leveling up off of Pokemon that give those "points" in those stats. Now, how people calculate what Pokemon/Trainers give what, and how its the most efficient, etc. is all beyond me.
Macho Brace works by decreasing the amount of work needed to get that "point". A certain amount of IV/EV "points" are needed to translate into 1 Stat point, but a Macho Brace, if I remember correctly, divides that amount in half.
In conclusion, to answer your Day Care question: Day Care is a terrible way of leveling up your Pokemon, as it misses out on those IV/EV points. I'm under the impression it is mostly used for breeding. On the other hand, EXP Share does not; the points are neither divided nor removed, both Pokemon receiving EXP get full amount of said points.
TL;DR: Leveling Pokemon up by fighting Pokemon is better than Day Care, and Macho Brace allows your Pokemon to have better stat increases when leveling up.
In other news, I got so into your playthrough that I began playing Pokemon Diamond. Currently I have a Empoleon, Luxray, and Starraptor at level 45, and am currently hard at work training my Sneasel and Gible to get there (it's going to be a while...Sneasel is only level 32 and Gible is freaking level 21!!!). I haven't even gotten to getting the Riolu egg, let alone training it....
Minor nitpick, IV's are calculated at the hatching of a Pokemon, and can't be changed in any way.
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Leveling Pokemon up by fighting Pokemon is better than Day Care, and Macho Brace allows your Pokemon to have better stat increases when leveling up.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. :) For the Macho Brace though, it says that it cuts speed. Does it mean that it makes your pokémon temporarily slower in battle while they are holding it or does it mean that it makes them permanently slower if you level them up while holding it?
In other news, I got so into your playthrough that I began playing Pokemon Diamond. Currently I have a Empoleon, Luxray, and Starraptor at level 45, and am currently hard at work training my Sneasel and Gible to get there (it's going to be a while...Sneasel is only level 32 and Gible is freaking level 21!!!). I haven't even gotten to getting the Riolu egg, let alone training it....
Keep it up! :) I never really trained Riolu iirc. Apart from my very first Diamond game, all I did were Nuzlockes, where it was always more beneficial to pick the Happiny egg. I don't remember the area where you can catch Gibles, but I think you unlock them after you pass the place where you get the Riolu egg. It's a minor spoiler, but here is how you can find it:
You get the Riolu egg on Iron Island, which you can reach by boat from the Steel Type gym's city.
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For the Macho Brace though, it says that it cuts speed. Does it mean that it makes your pokémon temporarily slower in battle while they are holding it or does it mean that it makes them permanently slower if you level them up while holding it?
The former.
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So simply put:
IV = Potential. each stat of a pokemon has a sort of 'score' between 0 and 31. It's random, can't be viewed, can't be changed.
EV = Training. Every species of pokemon grants you certain EVs in certain stats when you beat it. Your pokemon gains these EVs permanently, until it has 508, with a maximum of 252 in any one stat. Ideally, Special Sweepers would have 252 Sp Atk, 252 Speed and 4 in something else.
In daycare, you don't get EVs from beating pokemon. But they won't be permanently worse, just worse until they DO beat enough pokemon to rack up those 508 EVs.
On a slightly different topic, try to avoid grinding-leveling up a Special Attacker (for example) in an area that only has pokemon who will likely give Attack EVs, or you are wasting your extra stats on Attack, which you'll never use.
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So the macho brace doesn't decrease the amount of work needed to get the stat by half, but instead doubles the amount of IV's you get from a pokemon battle (which is so very close to the same thing). Every 10 IV's is equel to 1 EV. An EV is the +1/+2/+3/+4/+whatever that you see when your pokemon levels up. Some pokemon can give multiple IVs. For example, a Zubat gives 1 speed IV, but it's evolution give more. So if your pokemon kills 10 zubats before leveling up, it will gain 1 speed EV then it normally wouldve in the pokemon day care. This can be counteracted though by giving your pokemon a carbos, which according to the wiki says it gives pokemon 10 speed EVs, although I always thought it was 10 speed IVs. Per each level, a pokemon can get any combination of IVs for each stat, and up to 506 EVs are gained throughout levels 1-100.
Also with pokemon alpha sapphire and omega ruby, they introduced something called super training which allowed your pokemon to halt gaining EXP and just work on it's IVs, which is the main reason I like those games the best of the series, plus they have a lot more pokemon day cares for me to get bred moves and quicker get to those natures that I need. Also you can vs hoards of pokemon in alpha sapphire and omega ruby which strategically can serve many purposes for trainers, including getting multiple IVs in a single fight along with the macho brace.
As for which pokemon gives what IVs, they can be viewed on the wikipedia (but youd have to search every pokemon, yawn.) Which is why a lot of people didn't "IV/EV train" their pokemon until OR/AS. IV/EV training is just a term referring to a player being picky about which IVs their pokemon get while leveling up.
Conclusion: Using the pokemon day care for training your pokemon is fine as long as you go to the move relearner afterward and are ready to spend a crap ton of carbos/zincs/whatevers on your pokemon to make up for the lack of IVs they gained while in the daycare.
P.S. I don't know what MMC is talking about or if he meant something else and accidentally said the wrong thing. But basically everything tazankid said aside from how macho brace works was correct.
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CR, that's wrong.
IVs and EVs are completely different.
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To Sub's original question, you don't get EVs by leveling via daycare, only by leveling via battling. However, there is a maximum number of EVs a pokemon can ever get, so eventually daycare pokemon will catch up. There's a lady who gives an effort ribbon in a city in R/S/E to some pokemon you have - if she does so, that means the EVs of that pokemon are maxed out. (I think it's in one of the early cities, possibly Slateport).
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So the macho brace doesn't decrease the amount of work needed to get the stat by half, but instead doubles the amount of IV's you get from a pokemon battle (which is so very close to the same thing). Every 10 IV's is equel to 1 EV. An EV is the +1/+2/+3/+4/+whatever that you see when your pokemon levels up. Some pokemon can give multiple IVs. For example, a Zubat gives 1 speed IV, but it's evolution give more. So if your pokemon kills 10 zubats before leveling up, it will gain 1 speed EV then it normally wouldve in the pokemon day care. This can be counteracted though by giving your pokemon a carbos, which according to the wiki says it gives pokemon 10 speed EVs, although I always thought it was 10 speed IVs. Per each level, a pokemon can get any combination of IVs for each stat, and up to 506 EVs are gained throughout levels 1-100.
Also with pokemon alpha sapphire and omega ruby, they introduced something called super training which allowed your pokemon to halt gaining EXP and just work on it's IVs, which is the main reason I like those games the best of the series, plus they have a lot more pokemon day cares for me to get bred moves and quicker get to those natures that I need. Also you can vs hoards of pokemon in alpha sapphire and omega ruby which strategically can serve many purposes for trainers, including getting multiple IVs in a single fight along with the macho brace.
As for which pokemon gives what IVs, they can be viewed on the wikipedia (but youd have to search every pokemon, yawn.) Which is why a lot of people didn't "IV/EV train" their pokemon until OR/AS. IV/EV training is just a term referring to a player being picky about which IVs their pokemon get while leveling up.
Conclusion: Using the pokemon day care for training your pokemon is fine as long as you go to the move relearner afterward and are ready to spend a crap ton of carbos/zincs/whatevers on your pokemon to make up for the lack of IVs they gained while in the daycare.
P.S. I don't know what MMC is talking about or if he meant something else and accidentally said the wrong thing. But basically everything tazankid said aside from how macho brace works was correct.
IVs are calculated when the daycare man gives you the egg, and CANNOT be altered in any way. Think of them as a straight stat bonus, since one IV point = one stat point towards that skill. Example: A level 100 Pidgey with 31 IVs, (the maximum) in Speed will have a higher Speed stat than a level 100 Pidgey who has 0 IVs in Speed.
EVs are gained by the stat boost items such as Zinc and Carbos, and also can be gained by defeating wild Pokemon. Certain Pokemon give certain EVs, and some Pokemon give more EVs in that stat than others. 4 EVs are equivalent to 1 stat point, so if you have 4 EVs in Speed, it translates to 1 stat point in Speed. Additionally, a status condition called "Pokerus" can be gained randomly by encountering wild Pokemon, or spread by having a pokemon with Pokerus in your party. It doubles the gain of EVs.
TL;DR = IVs are determined upon hatch, can't be altered. EVs are gained by stat boost items and battling wild pokemon, can be manipulated by trainer.
Source: Pokemon breeder for 8+ years.
Helpful links:
EVs: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values
IVs: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Individual_values
Pokerus: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Individual_values
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Hrm, both ways make sense to me but if that's how it is then that's how it is. :/
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Thank you everyone for your answers. :) In a Nuzlocke, it seems to me that the only way I can use EVs or IVs to my advantage is to:
- Avoid leveling up important pokémons in the Day Care,
- Try to find and beat those pokémons which give a boost to specific stats I need, (this can only work by trial and error)
- Use Macho Brace sometimes during training.
I won't stick to these guidelines too much on my first run though, because it sounds really tedious. I believe that it's possible to beat the champion without EV/IV training. :)
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it's definitely possible.
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Unless you are planning to do competitive PVP, you can completely ignore EV/IV and you will have no problems whatsoever. Source: every pokemon playthrough I have done
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As stated by the guy above. Unless you are planning competitive PvP, don't worry about it, not to mention those are not the only things to worry about in PvP in the first place....
Of course, this is coming from a guy who studies the Champion's Pokemon Line-Up, required HM's, and Pokemon available to catch, and how many type advantages I have (I try to cover every type with at least 1), every time he plays a Pokemon game (so essentially I always have a Water Type, a Flying Type, and a Fighting Type, and almost always a Ground, Electric, and Dark type, with 1 Dragon or Ice dual-type somewhere in there).
Maybe I'm unconsciously very intimidated by AI, despite the fact that they try to Splash their way to victory against me....
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Unless you are planning to do competitive PVP, you can completely ignore EV/IV and you will have no problems whatsoever. Source: every pokemon playthrough I have done
Except for certain post-game content in certain games. You know what I mean.
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Unless you are planning to do competitive PVP, you can completely ignore EV/IV and you will have no problems whatsoever. Source: every pokemon playthrough I have done
Except for certain post-game content in certain games. You know what I mean.
Yeah, you're right. To correct myself, for anything up to the Champion battle (and several things after that as well) you can completely ignore EV/IV.
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My Nintendo DS Emulator crashed and refused to open ever again, so I had to just delete it...all that save data lost..."sob"
I wont be playing Pokemon again for a while.
Guess I'll go play Rune Factory 3...
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My Nintendo DS Emulator crashed and refused to open ever again, so I had to just delete it...all that save data lost..."sob"
I wont be playing Pokemon again for a while.
Ouch. :( I can feel your pain. It didn't happen to me with Pokémon yet, but it happened with other games where days of progress were lost in a mere second. To cheer you up somewhat, I hope I can still entertain you with my (mis)adventures. ^^"
We have entered the Flying-type gym! I started recording, which means there is no turning back. The first gym trainer who I already beat had a level 30 pokémon, which made me assume that Winona will be around level 35-36 (I learned from Diamond that gym trainers with a single pokémon are 5 levels below the gym leader's highest level pokémon. This formula seemed to work in Emerald too so far [except for Flannery >_>], so I kept using it).
The upcoming gym trainers ganged up on me in a double battle, but they were no match for the power of EXODIA and VORTEX. Since EXODIA learned Thunderbolt, he's been unstoppable, so I decided to let him do a sweep until he takes a risky amount of damage. The next gym trainer had a lv.30 Tropius, which EXODIA's attacks were not super effective against, but we still managed to win without a scratch. :D
(http://orig01.deviantart.net/8614/f/2011/353/3/a/dep___manectric_by_blazedgo-d4jmge1.png)
"Reynold then messed around for a bit with the gym's puzzles."
I admit it, I spent way more time on these puzzles than I should have. >_< But finally we could reach Winona! I quickly checked if any of my moves need a PP or HP restore, then I headed straight into it.
Sixth Gym Battle: Leader Winona
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/d0627b6c30a5ed4438e6bd4e93a163e7/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko6_r2_400.gif)
You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/ByX8dMxCCHM
First matchup: Lv.38 EXODIA vs Lv.29 SWABLUE. The first matchup was a pushover, but I expected nothing less considering Thunderbolt's high power and EXODIA's incredible Sp.Attack. Done in one hit.~
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/99/333Swablu.png/250px-333Swablu.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/da/334Altaria.png/250px-334Altaria.png)
Second matchup: Lv.38 EXODIA vs Lv.33 ALTARIA. Winona's levels escalated slowly, but we were steadily approaching that level 37. Hm, Altaria. Is this that Dragon-type pokémon that SWOOSH will evolve into? It looked nothing like a Dragon, but I rolled with it.~ Thunderbolt once again did its magic, though it didn't kill ALTARIA yet. Instead, we successfully paralyzed Winona's ALTARIA, which gave us another extra turn.
"But wait, ALTARIA is using an item!"
ALTARIA's Oran Berry barely healed her out of my killing range, making her lucky enough to win an extra turn. (I also won an extra turn, so it's all fair ^^") The next Thunderbolt pushed her HP to the redzone, but next turn Winona healed her back to full health with a Hyper Potion. Another Thunderbolt was already on its way though, so she was once again in EXODIA's killing range, except that she no longer had an Oran Berry to win her more time. Even though she used a move that raised her Speed, EXODIA was still faster, so next turn ALTARIA went down without even having a chance to attack.
(When I was watching the footage after the battle, I noticed that Thunderbolt was not super effective, so Dragon must be resistant to Electric. I didn't know that, but it might be worth remembering later.)
Next up: Lv.38 EXODIA vs Lv.31 SKARMORY. EXODIA's sweep was still perfectly going, so I decided to keep him in battle. Once again, Thunderbolt was too strong for Winona to handle. After beating SKARMORY, EXODIA levelled up and wanted to learn Bite. I wanted to go for type diversity, so Bite was definitely something I planned to keep. However, either Roar or Thunder Wave had to be forgotten. I took some time to decide, but looking back at my actions, I think I made the wrong decision by forgetting Roar over Thunder Wave (Thunderbolt already had a chance to paralyze, so Thunder Wave was less useful). EXODIA's moveset started to look a lot like a Luxio's.
(http://www.smogon.com/forums/attachments/skarmory-png.5353/) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/dd/357Tropius.png/250px-357Tropius.png)
EXODIA's sweep chain was broken when Winona announced that she's gonna send out Tropius. I knew from past encounters that Electric was not super effective against Grass-Flying, but I also knew that Rock was. Not even thinking about what I'm doing, I sent out GOYLE. Fourth matchup: Lv.37 GOYLE vs Lv.29 TROPIUS. At this point, I started to notice that Winona keeps sending out lower and lower level pokémons, so I let out a subtle "What the hell?". I didn't really know what was going on, but I quickly started thinking about something else. More specifically, when I was about to use Rock Blast or Rock Tomb on Tropius, I realized how dumb I just was by sending out a Rock-Ground dual type against a Grass-type opponent. O_O
For those who are new to pokémon, Grass-type moves deal 4x damage to Rock-Ground dual types, which could have easily been lethal to GOYLE. When I wanted to switch out, I noticed how much of a pickle I was in, because all my better attackers were weak to Grass (Water, Rock, Ground). I switched in SOLARIS to at least halve the effectiveness of TROPIUS' attacks, but this gave her a free turn to prepare an Ultimate Attack. I knew I was fudged, so I decided to stay in battle and give it my best.
The saddest thing in what came next is that SOLARIS was sooo close to one-shot Winona's TROPIUS, but her HP barely stopped above 0. It was her turn to unleash her Ultimate Attack: Solar Beam. SOLARIS took the hit as much as he could, but it was not only super effective, but also a critical hit. :(
"In a blink of an eye, SOLARIS was no more."
"Dammit, Winona!"
SOLARIS was my strategic finisher with Toxic, but now that strategy is gone. On second thoughts, I should have just sent out an Electric guy or PANDORA to take the hit, or I could just attack with GOYLE instead of switching him out. It is quite ironic though that an attack called "SOLAR Beam" could kill a sun, whose name was SOLARis. It should have stenghtened him instead of killing him. ?_?
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/338.png)
Now that TROPIUS didn't have move advantage any more though, it was time to call EXODIA back. TROPIUS was still in the red zone, so I only needed to land one successful hit. I forgot about Hyper Potion though, so I just wasted a turn by using Quick Attack over Thunderbolt. Since Electric moves were not super effective against Grass-Flying, I could only lower her to the redzone again, which enabled her to prepare for another Solar Beam. I could not let a second Solar Beam land! I assumed that she ran out of Hyper Potions, so I went straight for quick damage, just in case Solar Beam was also a Priority move or something (which I shouldn't have assumed, because last time Solaris was faster when it was used, but in the heat of battle, I couldn't think straight). It worked, and finally TROPIUS was down!
It was time to bring out her strongest pokémon yet, something around level 37. My disappointment didn't know limits when I saw that it was not only just level 30, but also a Pelipper. That's right, Lv.39 EXODIA vs Lv.30 PELIPPER. I let EXODIA finish his destruction in this gym, so we attempted another Thunderbolt. And another. And then another. What the hell, she's not dead yet?! Of course not, because it kept using freakin' Protect! (Protect essentially blocks any incoming attacks for the current turn, but every time it's successfully used, its chance to fail increases.) Thunderbolt had only 2 PP left, so I thought that this Pelipper might actually outsmart EXODIA. Unfortunately for her, she didn't, because our third Thunderbolt could finally hit, and by that, the fight was over.
My overall conclusion of the battle is that it's not what I expected. I heard rumors that Winona is strong, but all her pokémons were underleveled compared to my expectations. Sure, I intended to overlevel my pokémons by ~2 levels, but Winona was the first gym leader to significantly break my formula; her strongest pokémon was her Altaria with lv.33, which was only 3 levels above her strongest gym trainer. It just makes the loss of SOLARIS even more embarrassing. :'( Here I pay my tribute to the fallen:
SOLARIS, the Solrock: Lv.14-37, from Meteor Falls. Died by Leader Winona’s Lv.29 Tropius. Super effective and critical Solar Beam was too strong, 1-hit KO. (Your name was inspired by Solaris from Power Rangers)
(http://snag.gy/o2NHN.jpg) (http://snag.gy/BYm6a.jpg) (http://snag.gy/e6Df6.jpg)
"Bye-Bye SOLARIS! :( May you rest in peace."
"I almost forgot! It was finally time to learn FLY!"
My only available pokémon for the task was SWOOSH, the Swablu. After saying my goodbyes to SOLARIS, I did a quick adjustment to my team, then made SWOOSH learn Fly. I used my new ability to visit places like the Trick House, the Day Care and the Safari Zone, because I have some unfinished business there.
To be continued...
End of Day party stats:
| (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) | Lv.32 MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Mud Shot | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunderbolt | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Quick Attack | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder Wave |
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| (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) | Lv.37 GOYLE, the Graveler (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Magnitude | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Blast | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Rock Tomb |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/99/333Swablu.png/250px-333Swablu.png) | Lv.31 SWOOSH, the Swablu (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Fly | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Sing | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Safeguard |
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| (http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) | Lv.34 SPORE, the Breloom (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Mega Drain | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Mach Punch | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Stun Spore | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Psybeam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Reflect | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Recover | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Disable |
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Winona's Altaria has beaten many a first time player, that thing is absurd. Your leveling and its attack choices worked well in your favor - well done! Not sure why she brought it out so early, usually they go in ascending level order.
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Winona's Altaria has beaten many a first time player, that thing is absurd. Your leveling and its attack choices worked well in your favor - well done! Not sure why she brought it out so early, usually they go in ascending level order.
Yeah, interesting that she sent out Altaria second, that thing is normally a beast.
For what it's worth, I think you made the right choice keeping Thunder Wave over Roar - Thunderbolt only has a very small chance to paralyze while Thunder Wave is essentially guaranteed.
EDIT: Interestingly, your entire party post-Winona are Pokemon I've used, although not all in Emerald.
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As stated above, Thunder Wave is a guaranteed Paralyze, which is quite a strategic advantage (not to mention extremely helpful for catching Pokemon).
Because Altaria is a Dual Dragon-Flying Type, it gains resistance against many types in exchange for taking 4x damage from Ice (which I doubt you really had access to). Having said that, Electric-Types are one of (in my opinion) the most solid types in the game thanks to Thunderbolt, so you can often just brute force your way.
I lol'ed when I read the part where you sent out GOYLE for "type advantage".
As you said, your (mis)adventures certainly did lift my spirits~
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It is totally in the logic of KI that she sent out Altaria second.
Poke-trainer KIs always check what of their pokémon has a super-effective move against the opposing pokémon. Altaria knows Earthquake, which is super-effective against EXODIA. Altaria can become a real threat if it gets some boosts done, but getting lucky with paralyzis and being so over-leveled made it easier for you.
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It is totally in the logic of KI that she sent out Altaria second.
Yeah, but it's not common that a signature, highest-leveled Pokemon comes out so early, at least in my experience.
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In my experience, move efficiency always has the highest priority. My rival almost always sends out her starter second because I usually have my starter at the top, unless she has another pokémon with a super effective move.
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Altaria knows Earthquake, which is super-effective against EXODIA. Altaria can become a real threat if it gets some boosts done, but getting lucky with paralyzis and being so over-leveled made it easier for you.
Oh, wow, I'm lucky then that I only let her use Dragon Dance. If I knew that, I should have just sent out SOLARIS against Altaria, because of Levitate and having an actual super-effective move. ^^" But once again, she sent Altaria out early and it didn't even meet the expected levels, so I thought that her final pokémon will be something else, which lulled me in a false sense of security.
By the way, is KI different than AI?
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Well, you couldn't know that before. ^^ With Dragon Dance, it is likely faster than EXODIA, but paralyzis drops speed harshly. Not sure if a bosted Earthquake could have OHKOed EXODIA, but good you didn't need to find out. Winona has overall strong pokémon, I guess that's the reason developers put their levels lower than average.
KI = AI, sorry for confusion. I am used to use "KI" for pokémon.
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"The moral of the story is to always teach Shockwave to your Kadabra or Aerial Ace to any of your Flying-types."
No, this is not the moral of the previous fight, but the moral of something that happened today. But let's not jump to conclusions right away. Last time SWOOSH could finally learn Fly, so we could reach any previously visited areas. My first thing to do was to take everyone out of the Day Care, then I cleared the newest levels of the Trick House, then eventually I flew back to Lilycove to visit the Safari Zone. On my way to the Safari Zone though, a trainer who I defeated earlier wanted a rematch, so it was time for a quick battle. Before this battle, I believed that I was properly levelled, but it turned out that when I changed back to my non-trained pokémons, I put myself in a significant disadvantage. A Stomp alone from this trainer's Loudred almost killed ARGOR for example. o_o I called in SPORE to get rid of Loudred, but taking one Stomp was inevitable before we could attack. Next up was another normal type, Vigoroth, so I told SPORE to stay in battle. This Vigoroth was on steroids though, because not only did Mach Punch barely damage him, but it also completely destroyed SPORE with a Counter. :o
"Curse you, VIGOROTH!"
(http://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/dream-world/288.svg) (http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/164/2/8/hidden_land_native_breloom_by_leonidas23-d68wfdo.png)
In the end, EXODIA had to handle the rest alone. I'm very sad for SPORE though, because he was one of my best strategic fighters. :( He was also my only realiable Fighting-type pokémon, so I lost that type coverage aswell.
Mourning over the loss of SPORE, I decided to start catching stuff once again. After entering the Safari Zone for the first time, I was sent home because I didn't have any Pokéblocks. After entering the Safari Zone for the second time though, I ventured deep to find where the rare stuff is hidden. After I couldn't go any deeper, I started circling in the tall grass.
(http://snag.gy/zgJe5.jpg)
"A wild Natu appeared!"
It's not what I expected, but I guess it could have been worse. I fed Natu the single Pokéblock I had, then after throwing 5 Safari Balls, I could finally catch her. She luckily didn't run away during all that time. :) Natu was given the name NESTRA, a combination of the words 'nest' and 'Nostradamus'. After catching NESTRA, I decided to explore the tall grass a bit more to see what the rarest stuff was. My second encounter was an Oddish. I wanted to run away so fast though, that I accidently clicked "Throw Safari Ball" instead of "Run" and I managed to catch another illegal Oddish. To reflect my derpyness, I gave the nickname "Oops." to him.
(http://snag.gy/0XtGm.jpg)
I figured that Natu was one of the rarer encounters, but I also met some Doduos and Phanpys along some more common Psyducks, Goldeens, Girafarigs and Glooms, many of which would have been much more useful than NESTRA.
When I finished running around in the Safari Zone, I decided to start fishing in Lilycove City, which won me a level 25 Magikarp. I had tons of Rare Candies in the PC, so I spared one for MARKUS here. ;)
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/7/7e/177Natu_Dream.png/revision/latest?cb=20150109014531) (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/b/b8/129Magikarp_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20141016165344)
Skip, skip, skippery doo, and we finally reached a new area! I was following Team Aqua's leader (Archie) to Mount Pyre, but before advancing, I decided to look around in the next area first. I tried to avoid trainer battles for now, but there were some where I needed to fight my way through. The first was a double battle, which was kinda tough, but nothing unmanageable. The next trainer was alone, but he was a bit more tough. I can't remember what the guy's first pokémon was, but I could somehow deal with it. His second pokémon though was a Shiftry, which started off by 6 consecutive Double Teams. I tried to hit him with SWOOSH while I could, but I lost too many turns by missing with Fly and doing unnecessary switches (because of Swagger).
"Ummm.... I think I should start recording now."
You should probably watch the video first, because there are no words for the struggle that I just had to go through: https://youtu.be/BtSAoG639hA . To summarize my situation, Shiftry had Double Team, Swagger, Faint Attack and Giga Drain. He kept using Double Team and Swagger in his first 8 turns to win enough time to raise his evasion to infinity. The problem was that ARGOR had nothing that could even hit him, MYRIONITE and GOYLE were double-weak to Giga Drain, while SWOOSH and LIANEE were simply not strong enough to deal decent decent damage or to take too much hits. This put all the pressure on EXODIA alone, but despite our best efforts, we just couldn't hit our opponent. To top it off, Swagger made us hit ourselves multiple times too.
Needless to say, the losses in the end of the battle were devastating. Too devastating. I couldn't stand my ground after EXODIA went down. Reynold blacked out...
"Remember. The moral of the story is to always teach Shockwave to your Kadabra or Aerial Ace to any of your Flying-types. Continuously missing your opponent can lead to no good."
And by that, today's episode ends.
SPORE, the Breloom: Lv.5-34, from Petalburg Woods. Died by Route 121's Cooltrainer’s Lv.37 Vigoroth. Counter after SPORE's Mach Punch was too strong to handle.
LIANEE, the Linoone: Lv.26, from Route 118. Died by Route 123's Cooltrainer’s Lv.28 Shiftry. A sacrifice had to be made.
GOYLE, the Graveler: Lv.10-37, from Route 111. Died by Route 123's Cooltrainer’s Lv.28 Shiftry. Giga Drain was too strong, 1-hit KO.
MYRIONITE, the Marshtomp: Lv.5-33, from Littleroot Town. Died by Route 123's Cooltrainer’s Lv.28 Shiftry. Two Giga Drains in a row were too much to handle.
EXODIA, the Manectric: Lv.13-39, from Route 110. Died by Route 123's Cooltrainer’s Lv.28 Shiftry. We couldn't hit our opponent and eventually we went down.
ARGOR, the Kadabra: Lv.8-34, from Granite Cave. Died by Route 123's Cooltrainer’s Lv.28 Shiftry. There was nothing we could do, but we had no better option.
SWOOSH, the Swablu: Lv.16-33, from Route 114. Died by Route 123's Cooltrainer’s Lv.28 Shiftry. We were too slow to do anything and our opponent was too evasive.
Sorry team. We couldn't make it. :(
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RIP :(
Do you plan on continue using pokemon in PC, or do you consider it lost?
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There's a Rival battle on your youtube that didn't make it into any of the AARs, not sure if you forgot to upload a segment.
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Do you plan on continue using pokemon in PC, or do you consider it lost?
I still didn't decide, but I have enough PC pokémons to continue if there is a need.
There's a Rival battle on your youtube that didn't make it into any of the AARs, not sure if you forgot to upload a segment.
I just forgot about that. ^^" Gotta fix it later.
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Continue, you'll fall in love with your replacement team :)
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How about picking 6 Pokemon in the PC to be your new team and releasing all the rest?
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Shiftry means "shift-your-team-ry"
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About the revival thing:
Tough decision. On the pro side of having the restriction, you have to plan harder and heavy battles get more exciting. On the con side, one underestimated opponent could immediately mean game-over, ending the series.
Overall, I think the middle way could be a good solution, meaning you can revive once, and only once. Your pokémon still "die", but you can continue with a disadvantage, and making this possible only once, a "death" still hurts hard. To keep it heavy, you can also add some further penalties, like throwing all medicine and money away or something the like. I am also fine with hardcore, as Nuzlocke is usually played, just the easy variant with more than one revival seems bad, as it lenghthens a practically lost game too much.
I still wouldn't mind a "medium" style, but go with whatever you want, as long as you continue. :)
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I'm essentially in agreement with Ginyu and Linkcat here. Allow yourself one reset, pick 6 Pokemon in your PC and release the rest, if you want to toss any money/items away to get the right balance of fair and fun that you're looking for do that as well.
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Id say allow yourself to keep reviving your starter pokemon, nothing else personally. But my caveat to riving your whole team would instead be to go through the rest of the game without using the PC. (Sleep places may or may not count, your choice, but if so no using fly to get to them)
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RIP Reynold 2016
And here I was about to ask if you were going to level out that Magikarp for a Gyarados...
I can't believe EXODIA did not learn Shockwave all this time. I teach it my my Manetrics the moment I get my hand on the TM because even without the 100% Accuracy, it has decent balance of PP and base damage.
So uhh...what now >_>
Wanna go play Rune Factory like I did? lol
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I can't believe EXODIA did not learn Shockwave all this time. I teach it my my Manetrics the moment I get my hand on the TM because even without the 100% Accuracy, it has decent balance of PP and base damage.
So uhh...what now >_>
Wanna go play Rune Factory like I did? lol
Thunderbolt was better than Shockwave in all aspect, except the "hit every time" part. I prefer putting Shockwave on Kadabra, because that can catch my opponents off-guard, plus it's good to have a viable attack against Dark-types. Too bad I didn't do it when I could. :/
I like the idea that people suggested, so I think I'm gonna extend my rules a bit so I can continue. I'll just pick 6 other pokémons and release the others. It won't be the same, but I'd like to go as far as I can on my blind run. I'm still gonna enable myself catching new pokémons in upcoming areas though.
Alright, my first problem is that when I last blacked out, I closed the game without saving, so my current state still has all 7 pokémons which fainted last time and I don't even have NESTRA the Natu and MARKUS the Magikarp yet. Should I try catching the exact same level and gender pokémon or should I give myself a second chance to catch anything new in those areas? I feel like I should try to catch another Natu and Magikarp, because they might affect what 6 pokémons I want to keep (I badly need a Flying-type for example).
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Just catch new ones.
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Blind Emerald Nuzlocke - Extra Life!
That's right, we're back with one extra life! This isn't going to be a cakewalk though, because now I only have 6 pokémons, and nothing else at the moment. To top it off, I also restricted myself to catch new pokémons with backtracking, so all areas up until Route 122 are now off-limits. I didn't restrict myself to catch pokémons in new areas though, so there is still hope. ^^
(http://snag.gy/pJEui.jpg)
So how does my new team look like? Well I tried to aim for the best type coverage possible, trying to have attacks against the basic trio of Fire-Water-Grass. I also accounted rarity, so even though MARKUS would have been very useful, I'm aware that I'll have plenty of time to catch a new Magikarp in the future. After that, my team still had a lot of weaknesses, so I decided to keep a Normal-type in my team, to balance it out. The female population grew, leaving only 2 males in my party.
After assembling my team and training them up a bit, their next challenge was to defeat Pokémon Trainer May, who was blocking the entrance of the Lilycove Department Store again. Luckily we had enough type coverage against her, so TERAFUZE could beat her Tropius and Grovyle, VORTEX could beat her Pelipper and LIPLOP could beat her Slugma, all in one hits. After I could finally enter the Department Store, I went CRAZY with Ultimate TMs, so now my pokémons know Fire Blast, Thunder and Blizzard. xD
I have faith in them, so I'm still gonna do my very best to become the very best! (even though I technically already failed once)
So right now I am in front of the next new area where I can finally catch pokémons again. This is where I'll continue next time. ;) Stay tuned~
End of Day party stats:
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3b/324Torkoal.png/250px-324Torkoal.png) | Lv.38 TERAFUZE, the Torkoal (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Fire Blast | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Flamethrower | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Body Slam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Iron Defense |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Screech |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Fake Out | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Crunch | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Faint Attack | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand Tomb | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Metal Claw | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Cut | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Harden |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Blizzard | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Uproar | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Pound | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Supersonic |
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I have certainly seen worse squads tbh.
Some of those might end up surprising you...
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"We are entering Mount Pyre!"
New area means new pokémons! We entered Mt Pyre through a cave entrance, so I quickly became excited for potential Zubats. Zubats are probably my favorite Poison-type pokémons in the game, not to mention that I was in dire need of Flying-types too. As I advanced through the entrance hallway though, I had to quickly realize that I just got into a graveyard.
(http://snag.gy/ifYgt.jpg)
Coming across a graveyard in a Nuzlocke, right after being wiped out and coming back with an extra life... Maybe we were just the ghost of late Reynold, but we still had the memories of our lost companions. The first NPC took us on a journey of feels, and the memories started to come back.
(http://imgur.com/gm8UPk6.jpg) (http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/075.gif) (http://snag.gy/Sbkkc.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV6hxdxWEAAJ1Wg.png) (http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140226033402/leonhartimvu/images/a/af/064_Kadabra_Shiny.png)
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/99/333Swablu.png/250px-333Swablu.png) (http://img07.deviantart.net/bec6/i/2013/089/d/1/manectric_by_dragonciaw-d5zvfa0.png) (http://www.legendarypokemon.net/images/dp_artwork/327.png) (http://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/dream-world/264.svg) (http://pre11.deviantart.net/e500/th/pre/f/2013/227/2/0/286_breloom_by_pklucario-d6iagqd.png) (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/338.png)
After mourning my losses for a bit, I decided to move on, but a wild pokémon stopped me after several steps. I was hoping for a Zubat or a Gastly, but instead I got a Shuppet, who I already caught earlier, but then I had to release because of the Extra Life rules. Because this is a graveyard, I wanted to believe that this is the same Shuppet that I once set free (even the genders are matching!), and now her soul returned to me in the afterlife.
"Welcome back, SHINIGAMI! Though from now on, your name shall be REVENANT."
(http://snag.gy/I198S.jpg)
For some reason I believed that I was chasing Aqua Leader Archie in Mt Pyre, but I saw no clue of him anywhere. After clearing the area out, I realized that I must have misunderstood something.
After advancing a bit, I met a trainer who had a Hariyama. The battle looked okay, but then the sneaky bugger decided to knock off my only Charcoal from TERAFUZE. "Well, drat!" - I thought to myself, thinking that a rare item could just disappear like that for good. TERAFUZE could beat the Hariyama without Charcoal, but I was still grumpy in the end. However, the first miracle happened when I realized that Charcoal didn't disappear, as TERAFUZE was still holding it after the battle. :o
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After exploring some more in Mt Pyre, I noted to myself that if I hadn't lost SHINIGAMI in the first place, then I could have caught a Duskull. Other than that, if I had been super lucky, I could have even caught a Vulpix.
(http://snag.gy/T6xRU.jpg)
It was not only me though who lost someone precious. The real hero was this guy, who lost his master, and now desperately tries to improve himself, thinking that it is the only way for his teacher to finally rest in the otherworld.
(http://snag.gy/Vg7e4.jpg)
"Things got dark pretty soon."
This area looked like a safe place to train, because there were only Ghost-type pokémons appearing lately. TRIPLETRAP needed a lot more levels, so I put her in first place to get rid of any ghosts with her Dark-type moves: Crunch and Faint Attack. After a while, Crunch was pretty much out of PP, but we still had some PP left for Faint Attack, so I didn't think it will be any problem. On our way to upstairs though, a trainer stopped us with her high-level Wobbuffet. I thought that TRIPLETRAP would do just fine against her, because Dark-type attacks are good against Psychic, but then I realized that I have 0 PP for Crunch and only 1 PP left for Faint Attack. I hoped that Faint Attack would do reasonable damage, but it didn't do as much as I hoped.
"And this is where things got really really dark."
"WOBBUFFET used Destiny Bond!"
(http://snag.gy/1jnRH.jpg) (http://snag.gy/goGGf.jpg)
DAMMIT! Destiny Bond is the reaper of all pokémon moves; if the user dies after using Destiny Bond, the opponents dies too unless the opponent is switched out. I tried to switch out, but it turned out that Wobbuffet's special ability prevented the opponent from switching. Terror crept through my face as I tried to evaluate my chances to survive. Things were looking terrible for TRIPLETRAP here, because it was almost sure that she was going to die after this battle, even if we won. I didn't give up yet though, because I hoped that Destiny Bond will either wear off, or some other miracle will happen if we manage to win somehow. But even winning wasn't easy, because Crunch and Faint Attack had 0 PPs left, and other than that, we only had Sand-Attack, which does absolutely 0 damage, and Sand Tomb, which barely does any damage and has only 70% chance to even hit the opponent. Luckily for me though, this Wobbuffet's moveset was just as terrible; He only had Counter, Mirror Coat, Destiny Bond and Mystic Veil. Apart from Destiny Bond's effect, only Counter could do any damage to us, but with some perfectly timed Sand Tombs and Sand Tomb's damage-over-time effect helped me to avoid being hit by it. I also lowered his Accuracy into oblivion with Sand-Attack, so I had a some sense of security here. The battle prolonged for a very long time, until it was time to deal the final health chipping. The moment of truth has eventually came; Wobbuffet was dead. But what now? Maybe it was because he was killed by the damage-over-time effect of Sand Tomb, but TRIPLETRAP survived without a scratch. I don't understand though. Did I just witness a miracle?
(http://snag.gy/ST1T4.jpg)
After witnessing 2 miracles in one day, it was finally time to meet the dreaded trainer who almost ended our journey in the first place. On my way there, I faced all trainers who I previously skipped facing, slowly preparing myself for the big battle. One of the guys was a weirdo, who said that he often makes his own pokémons fight each other while he is watching. He especially expressed the "watching them" part. It made much more sense though after I learned that his two pokémons were Zangoose and Seviper, but the guy was still a creep in my book. (Zangoose and Seviper hate each other for some reason, so they are natural enemies or something)
(http://snag.gy/3jNd4.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/KFQ8HKo.png)
But enough talk about random NPC fights now. It's time for the real deal!
Killer Rematch: Revenge of the Sith!
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/a/a1/ORAS_Ace_Trainer_M.png/91px-ORAS_Ace_Trainer_M.png)
Watch this battle of epic proportions here: ...
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To Be Continued...
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(http://i.imgur.com/KFQ8HKo.png)
This had me rolling, for some reason ;D
I do believe Destiny Bond wears off after a time in battle, but not 100% certain.
Funfact: Shadow Tag, the ability that wasn't letting you switch out, is exclusive to Wobuffet/Wynaut! Arena Trap also has the same effect, exclusive to the Diglett evolution line + Trapinch. Additionally, there is another ability called Magnet Pull, which has the same effect. It is exclusive to Magnemite's evolution line, and Nosepass + Probopass ;)
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Destiny Bond actually only lasts until the user makes another move. So it really only lasts 1 turn. And Knock Off only removes the item for the duration of the battle. So not that much of Miracles :P
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the taunt being a direct counter to swagger lol
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Today's episode will be short for multiple reasons, but don't worry. I'm still alive. ^^" Well, sorta... Can I even say that on my Extra Life run? Not sure, but let's continue anyway!~
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f7/275Shiftry.png/250px-275Shiftry.png)
So you probably already know that I beat my killer in the end of the last episode, by using my awesome Taunt skills. When he switched in his Shiftry, I knew that shiz was about to go down. Unluckily my super-effective attacker, TERAFUZE, was still paralyzed from a previous battle, so I had a slight disadvantage at first. We tried to attack, but he was faster with a Double Team, which already started to work, because I missed. I realized that it won't work, so I had to switch in WILSON to use Taunt ASAP. This gave him a chance to use Double Team again, which started to make me seriously worried about the outcome. The first Taunt missed, but at least he didn't use Double Team again. He used Swagger though, which could have been even worse, but luckily the second Taunt went through both WILSON's confusion and Shiftry's high evasiveness. After this, I switched back TERAFUZE, and from then on, it was only a matter of time that one of my attacks land. In the end, Reynold's ghost emerged victorious. 8)
After our cool victory (noone will get this pun), a new area was unlocked again, which meant new teammates again! I was excited to see new faces, but with so many old faces in my previous teams, it's hard to get surprised. Once again, a past teammate came back from the afterlife to greet me again.~
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/5/59/Poochyena_261_DreamWorldArt.png/revision/latest?cb=20140827211235)
She was not PANDORA though, she was still unevolved. I wondered what name should I give to this Poochyena, then a suitable name came to my mind: PERSISTER. Because she is persistent and probably the sister of PANDORA. ^^"
For convenience I'm gonna skip the following part.
As I said, there are many reasons why I was so late with this new episode, and the biggest reason was a graphical glitch that prevented me from seeing the entrance to a new (and extremely important!) area on the top of Mount Pyre, which made me run around aimlessly from town to town. This was the point where I had to break my blind run for a bit and consult with Bulbapedia, because it was very frustrating after a while. When I checked where I needed to go, it turned out that my emulator is glitched and it cuts out everything (except trainer sprites and collectible items) when I'm in a foggy area.
Case in point, when I posted these images in my previous posts, I wasn't told that it's not what I'm supposed to see, so I thought that it's normal. ?_? Luckily Bulbapedia provided me with area maps, so I could sort the problem out eventually. :)
The Team Aqua grunt I was hunting fled into Rusturf Tunnel, which was foggy as hell. [...]
(http://snag.gy/VbkLB.jpg) (http://snag.gy/LDYvK.jpg)
[...] Once again I attempted to check the gym's structure, but it was so foggy, that only the NPCs were visible. To make the experience worse, the gym was a maze full of teleport locations, but you couldn't see where the teleportation points were because of the dense steam.
"I only walked 3 steps to the left and then I got teleported to the middle of nowhere."
(http://snag.gy/bULoc.jpg)
To save any fellow Emerald player the pain to bump into all the walls in this gym, here is a map that I created while exploring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mQNydU1Zf6JLlL9msPkngrJ8E2ppKk_zg4EewSQdvdE/edit?usp=sharing
To avoid future problems though, I realized one thing (and totally by myself :D): When I call May in-game with my PokéNAV, she always tells me where I need to go next, even if there were no clues about it beforehand. That's pretty neat actually.
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/074.png)
So I then messed around, chased some Aqua Grunts away, visited Jagged Path, inflitrated Team Magma's hideout, etc, etc. You know, the usual stuff. ;) In team Magma's Hideout, I caught a new Geodude who I named GYRONA. I'm too lazy to train her up from Lv.27 to Lv.40, so I probably won't use her, unless totally necessary. :P
I levelled my guys up a lot, then I finally reached Leader Maxie, who was about to awaken Groudon, the legendary pokémon of lands. I beat him, I recorded our match, then my game crashed... No problem, I beat him again, I recorded the second match too, then I saved the game. So now I have two recordings about one battle, but none of them are too interesting. They all went the same way: I switched in 4-5 pokémons to beat his Mightyena, then his other 2 guys were 1-shotted by TERAFUZE and VORTEX.
After beating Maxie though, I once again didn't know where I needed to go next.
This is where I had to call May again on my PokéNav, who told me that I need to visit Captain Stern in Slateport City. I headed there, so this is where I will continue next time.
(http://snag.gy/yihGd.jpg)
So, umm... this episode is awkwardly short so far, so let me add some random bonus content.
So, I was infiltrating Team Magma's base when guards came to stop me left and right. One of them was a female magma grunt, who seemed to be really enthusiastic about her work.
For the following parts, let's imagine that MYRIONITE was still alive and he evolved into a Swampert.~
Let's also imagine that the girl had a Numel and not a Baltoy.
(http://snag.gy/SU7Dh.jpg) (http://snag.gy/MQoWF.jpg)
After defeating her "Numel" in one shot with a Water-type move, the following scenario happened:
(http://i.imgur.com/QBISzLZ.png)
(http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/15081/001.0/compressed/c005.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/yROQI86.png)
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"... And this is how I met your mother, kids."
(https://41.media.tumblr.com/cd7552e3df2dc4ea3dc33445bc9e5d04/tumblr_mzqynwFxtx1snoxpho1_1280.jpg)
This should do the trick for now. ^^"
(Source: http://mangafox.me/manga/pokemon_dating_a_team_magma_grunt_doujinshi/c001/1.html)
End of Day party stats:
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3b/324Torkoal.png/250px-324Torkoal.png) | Lv.39 TERAFUZE, the Torkoal (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Fire Blast | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Flamethrower | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Body Slam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Iron Defense |
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| | (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/de/101Electrode_AG_Anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20141208030807) | Lv.41 VORTEX, the Electrode
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Light Screen |
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| (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/4/47/271Lombre_Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Red_and_Blue_Rescue_Teams.png/revision/latest?cb=20150109034256) | Lv.40 LIPLOP, the Lombre (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Fake Out | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Absorb | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Thief |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/76/328Trapinch.png/250px-328Trapinch.png) | Lv.37 TRIPLETRAP, the Trapinch (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Crunch | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Faint Attack | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Dig | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Sand-Attack |
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| (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/e/e5/347Anorith_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20140925045036) | Lv.38 ANUBIS, the Anorith (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Ancientpower | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Metal Claw | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Cut | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/294.png) | Lv.37 WILSON, the Loudred (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Blizzard | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Taunt | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Supersonic |
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I loved that comic ;P
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I loved that comic ;P
Me too! Especially the "I guess you would be the champion then." part from the original. That part was awesome! :D
It's been a while folks, but we're still rolling.~ Last time we were lost, but this time I knew exactly where I needed to go: to the Team Aqua HQ (headquarters)! When I entered to explore, I quickly realized that it's that particular HQ layout where you can only navigate by using teleports; the same layout that will be used again in Pokémon Diamond. This place had additional tricks though. I noticed how there were a lot of pokéballs thrown in a big pile, which made me suspect that some of them are Voltorbs/Electrodes. Because of that, I switched TRIPLETRAP to lead my party (she recently learned Dig, which was super effective against those Electric types). It was a good call; - a wild Electrode appeared!
(http://snag.gy/M7AMD.jpg)
This was a new area, so I could have caught this Electrode, but I was not in the mood to risk a Selfdestruct. I may have lost a chance to catch an Electrode, but I got something else in exchange: a new, unexpected evolution! :o
(http://snag.gy/Ita58.jpg) (http://snag.gy/znlxp.jpg) (http://snag.gy/x6R9k.jpg)
"Holy Cow, is that what Trapinch evolves into?! That's so cool! :D"
I was told twice earlier to train and/or "evolve" my Trapinch, but before that I had no idea that it can even evolve. Because of this, I may have accidently delayed her evolution, because she was holding an Everstone for quite a while. (my bag was getting full a lot of times while exploring, so I put a Nugget on VORTEX and an Everstone on TRIPLETRAP. I just recently removed and sold both, but they have been equipped for quite a while.) I especially didn't expect Trapinch to become a Dragon-type. This Dragon-typing alone made this evolution pretty awesome. :)
"Her stats were still kinda lame though. Especially her Defense."
I moved on with excitement, because not only did I unlock a Dragon-type pokémon, but I also acquired a Master Ball. It was just laying on the ground, so I took it. Noone will ever know.~ Apart from that, the only interesting part was a short battle with Aqua Admin Matt. The battle was pretty short, but it was worth mentioning.
(http://snag.gy/0g2fs.jpg) (http://snag.gy/5uFlz.jpg)
For the following part, I'd like to condense 4 days worth of training in one, neat song.
After defeating Aqua Admin Matt inside their base,
the coward Aqua Leader Archie fled, thus giving us a chase.
They unlocked us a new path thus advancing more the plot,
but that also meant we had to meet and fight others a lot.
These random trainers and encounters gave us a beating lately,
but that only means that we should train so we don't fall down maybe.
(http://snag.gy/jU2wl.jpg) (http://snag.gy/ZYOaH.jpg)
Our tech needed a good update to increase survival chances,
so we unlocked some cool stuff today; scavenging skill advances.
(http://snag.gy/0g2fs.jpg) (http://snag.gy/rd5o0.jpg)
New areas were explored: some new routes, new lanes, new halls,
which meant brand new friends to capture; just enter my pokéballs.
(http://snag.gy/yGjIj.jpg) (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/072.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/39/278Wingull.png/250px-278Wingull.png) (http://pre10.deviantart.net/9325/th/pre/i/2013/217/d/3/279_pelipper_by_pklucario-d6gq1w0.png)
I'm interrupting the song here to tell how excited I was about catching a Spheal. I knew that Spheal and its evolution line is Ice-Water, which would be an awesome addition to my team. I also knew that Spheal's third evolution is Walrein, but I am unsure whether I can unlock it or not. Some evolutions (like Alakazam, Gengar and Golem) need special requirements to evolve that I cannot fulfill in Emerald (they need to be traded). Let's hope that we can unlock Walrein by simple training or via evolutionary stones.
We were still fragile as bricks and grinding low-levels is pain,
but with determination it paid off to diligently train.
(http://snag.gy/Ita58.jpg) (http://snag.gy/znlxp.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/nRBz5.jpg) (http://snag.gy/E1Mtv.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/8rlSt.jpg) (http://snag.gy/XTb8b.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/AYjES.jpg) (http://snag.gy/WeqkA.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/M0ukZ.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Ls9hj.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/RTgL3.jpg) (http://snag.gy/LF8I6.jpg)
Once again I was surprised when WILSON evolved. I finally know how an Exploud looks like and I'm totally satisfied with what I see. WILSON finally looks badass. 8) The same goes for ANUBIS aswell. Their similar style and coloring sometimes made me confuse them. ^^"
These random trainers and encounters gave us a beating lately,
but that only means that we should train so we don't fall down maybe.
(http://snag.gy/xyEfR.jpg) (http://snag.gy/3lyUF.jpg) (http://snag.gy/c12cg.jpg) (http://snag.gy/zGU5Q.jpg) (http://snag.gy/8kBR1.jpg) (http://snag.gy/VFTVW.jpg) (http://snag.gy/XvWjg.jpg) (http://snag.gy/fAezH.jpg)
Now that the song is over, you may ask why I decided to start such an epic training montage.
The answer is simple. Because it was time to visit a new Gym again!
It has been a while since I last battled a gym and this one got me especially nervous. The upcoming Gym was full of gimmicks; it was not only a Psychic-type gym, (meaning that they would try to confuse my pokémons in battle,) but it was also the very first gym where the leaderS(!) forced me into a double battle. In Nuzlocke double battles I have a particular fear: the fear of both opponents focusing fire on the same target. This way all my pokémons needed to be ready to take 2 hits in 1 turn. From the gym trainer battles, I learned that the leaders should have Level 41 pokémons. From pre-Nuzlocke knowledge, I also knew that they will have a Lunatone and a Solrock, but I didn't know anything else. I expected them to have high Special Attack and Special Defense, so when I chose my 6 guys who would fight, I considered not only type coverage, but also stats.
Here is how my team looked before entering the next gym:| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f6/364Sealeo.png/250px-364Sealeo.png) | Lv.41 SWIRLY, the Sealeo (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Body Slam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Aurora Beam | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Ice Ball | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Blizzard |
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| | (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/de/101Electrode_AG_Anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20141208030807) | Lv.45 VORTEX, the Electrode
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Tackle | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Light Screen |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/0a/354Banette.png/250px-354Banette.png) | Lv.42 REVENANT, the Banette (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Hyper Beam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Faint Attack | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Night Shade | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Skill Swap |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.41 PERSISTER, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swagger |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/1d/348Armaldo.png/250px-348Armaldo.png) | Lv.45 ANUBIS, the Armaldo (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Ancientpower | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Metal Claw | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Cut | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Water Gun |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/12/295Exploud.png/250px-295Exploud.png) | Lv.43 WILSON, the Exploud (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Hyper Beam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Taunt | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Supersonic |
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"Alright, let's do this!"
Seventh Gym Battle: Leaders Liza & Tate!(http://45.media.tumblr.com/f7491dbf000408a387e55c8a8d799eb3/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko7_r3_400.gif)
Here is my battle against Liza and Tate: And here is Ash's battle against Liza and Tate: &feature=youtu.be&t=10m1s
I didn't really have a plan, because I didn't have enough type coverages. My only plan was to 1) survive; 2) hit big; 3) reserve PERSISTER for their strongest pokémons. First matchup was Lv.45 VORTEX and Lv.41 SWIRLY vs Lv.41 XATU and Lv.41 CLAYDOL. VORTEX still had immense Speed, so he went first. His target was Xatu, who we were not only lucky enough to hit with Thunder (70% hitrate), but we were also lucky enough to finish him with a critical hit. After Xatu went down, Solrock was immediately dragged out. It was all fun and games so far, but damn the gimmicks never end.
CLAYDOL used Earthquake. It was super effective!
"WHAT?!"
I guess my only luck was that VORTEX was a bit overlevelled, because this way he could barely survive Earthquake. I wasn't thinking when the battle started, and didn't even think about any other attacks than Psychic-types. Luckily my opponent's turn was over, so I didn't need to prepare for a second attack this turn. At least SWIRLY still had a chance to land a super-effective Blizzard on that Claydol, chipping down half of its full HP. It was time to switch out VORTEX for someone else.
(http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/344.png)
Second matchup: Lv.41 PERSISTER and Lv.41 SWIRLY vs Lv.42 SOLROCK and Lv.41 CLAYDOL. I decided to bring out PERSISTER a bit earlier, because she had Intimidate, which lowered the Attack power of both opposing pokémons. Earthquake was a Physical attack, but all I cared for before this battle was Special Defense (which was a mistake), so Intimidate was much needed. Switching in PERSISTER wasted me a turn though and the next one started with another Earthquake right away. It was quite manageable. However, it was Solrock's turn next, who was preparing for a Solar Beam (120 base damage). Solrock also avoided SWIRLY's incoming Blizzard, but at least it was enough to finally get rid of CLAYDOL. SWIRLY also levelled up! Well done, SWIRLY! :) You need to be switched out though, because Solar Beam would kill you next turn.
Third matchup: Lv.41 PERSISTER and Lv.42 REVENANT vs Lv.42 SOLROCK and Lv.42 LUNATONE. I switched in REVENANT to (and I'm not kidding here) attack our opponents with a Hyper Beam. The reason behind that is because REVENANT had the second highest Attack stat in my party (ANUBIS was first), and because of this, I taught her Hyper Beam to utilize that power to its full potential. Right after switching her in battle, she was immediately a combined target of a Solar Beam and a Psychic, barely leaving any of her HP left. At least PERSISTER could land a hit, leaving Solrock in killzone for the next turn.
The game was continously beeping alarm noises: "Ding Ding, Ding Ding, Switch out REVENANT you idiot, she's gonna die", but for some reason I believed that a Hyper Beam could kill Lunatone from full HP.
"YEAH REVENANT, finish off that bastard! Oh wait... Isn't Normal not very effective against Rock?"
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/0/0a/354Banette.png/250px-354Banette.png)
Well, shit. I totally forgot that Hyper Beam is a Normal-type move and that it is not very effective against Rock. >_< That happens when I'm too greedy. As a revenge attack, Lunatone finished off REVENANT with a final Psychic attack. Oh well... at least PERSISTER could finish off Solrock as planned. Let's jump to the next round.
Final matchup: Lv.41 PERSISTER and Lv.45 ANUBIS vs Lv.42 LUNATONE. This matchup was much more in my favor. With the united power of PERSISTER and ANUBIS, Lunatone was banished to the Shadow Realm in a single turn. Liza and Tate, you know what the song says...
These random trainers and encounters gave us a beating lately,
that only means that we should train, I'M NOT FALLING DOWN BABY!
"Now give me that badge, and better give me two because I just beat two of you."
For REVENANT:
REVENANT, the Banette: Lv.29-42, from Mt.Pyre. Died by Liza and Tate’s Lv.42 Lunatone. I made a dumb mistake. :(
(http://snag.gy/pzlKA.jpg) (http://snag.gy/w2N78.jpg) (http://snag.gy/EUE1I.jpg)
"Bye-Bye REVENANT! May your spirit find peace."
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Rip REVENANT :( Good episode, Subbrochine!
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Good episode, Subbrochine!
Thanks, Brocat! ^^ Gotta keep it up, gotta catch 'em all. ;)
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I can't help but find it ironic that a GHOST type ended up going down in a Psychic Oriented Gym ^_^
Too bad you didn't have any other GHOST type moves besides Night Shade...by the way, isn't Hyper Beam a special attack, not a physical?
Well dual-types suck I guess...
I'm also patiently awaiting the day "Dating a Team Magma Grunt" to start back up; curse conscripted military service!
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Too bad you didn't have any other GHOST type moves besides Night Shade...by the way, isn't Hyper Beam a special attack, not a physical?
Until the 3rd generation, physical and special damage depended entirely on the type of the attack. All Normal type attacks were physical.
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I thought that Hyper Beam was a physical attack, though I'm not sure. Gen III didn't make it obvious which attacks are special and which attacks are physical. From Gen IV, it's written everywhere.
edit: Can someone confirm this list to me? http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/40995/what-types-in-gen-iii-are-physical-and-which-are-special
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Confirmed.
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I may have progressed waaaay too far ahead, so I'm gonna stop playing for a while and try telling my story.
After beating Liza and Tate, Reynold got allowance to use Dive outside of battle, but we didn't even have the HM yet. I explored a lot of water areas to find it, so I also encountered a lot of water pokémons. Sadly the variety was terrible, so I kept catching the same kinds of pokémons.
And just when I was about to catch something interesting, a random critical hit happened. T_T
(http://snag.gy/rj7fK.jpg)
"But what did I catch then?- you may wonder."
Well I caught 3 Wingulls/Pelippers and 3 Wailmers. >_> And what nickname did I give them?- you may also wonder. Well that's an interesting story. I caught the Wingull and the 2 Pelippers first. The Pelippers were given the names PLOP(♀) and PRISCILLA(♀), then I ran out of ideas and called the Wingull WIKIPEDIA(♀). Giving nicknames to the Wailmers was much harder. For the first two, I gave them the names WINSTRATE(♂) and WOLSTRAS(♂), because these names sounded kinda original, but then I lost my mind on the third one and simply called him WESKER(♂).
(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/7/79/Wingull_BW.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120622075850) (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/c/cd/Wailmer_BW.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120622080415) (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/7/79/Wingull_BW.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120622075850) (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/c/cd/Wailmer_BW.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120622080415) (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/7/79/Wingull_BW.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120622075850) (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/c/cd/Wailmer_BW.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120622080415)
And yes, they are all legal catches. It's insane how many water routes are between Mossdeep and Slateport.
When I reached Pacifidlog Town, I met this funny guy who asked me where I came from. The images below show how the conversation went:
(http://snag.gy/gO7iv.jpg) (http://snag.gy/XA3l9.jpg)
'>_>
But enough of the funny guy in Pacifidlog Town. After some training, WIKIPEDIA was finally evolving. :)
(http://snag.gy/xTmlb.jpg) (http://snag.gy/dR4Wl.jpg)
So anyway, after a very long chain of training and exploring I finally figured out where I needed to go to get the HM for Dive. In the city where I beat Liza and Tate, Team Magma was about to infiltrate the local Space Station, so I needed to go there to stop them. The first few battles were nothing special, but when I headed upstairs, a gang of 3 grunts surrounded me. I was very excited to have a triple battle, because I never had a triple battle in my life, but the game sadly decided to turn me down by giving me 3 consecutive single battles instead. Laaame.
(http://snag.gy/yd3Up.jpg)
After these battles, I found Magma Leader Maxie and Magma Admin Tabitha who were beating up Steven. In a desperate attempt, Steven called for my help. I had no other choice than starting an epic Double Battle on his side.
Double Battle: Reynold and Steven vs Leader Maxie and Admin Tabitha!(http://i.imgur.com/63X2DiP.png) (http://i.imgur.com/KiN3hBa.png)
VS (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/68/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Maxie.png/120px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Maxie.png) (http://i.imgur.com/BG7LYzB.png)
You can watch this double battle here: "Choose Pokémon and confirm!"
"Um... What?"
This was very confusing at first, because I didn't expect that I need to choose available pokémons for the fight. First I chose ANUBIS, because Rock was good against Fire, then I chose WILSON, just in case they use a type of attack that I didn't prepare for, then I chose LIPLOP, because Water was also good against Fire.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/62/375Metang.png/250px-375Metang.png)
When I confirmed my team, I got even more confused, because a new, unknown screen showed up. I could at least get a nice look at half of Steven's team. You know, just in case I'll have to battle him after Victory Road. :P After a second confirmation, it was time for the first matchup: Lv.46 ANUBIS and Lv.42 METANG vs Lv.42 MIGHTYENA and Lv.36 CAMERUPT. Mightyena's Swagger made ANUBIS useless pretty fast, so I needed to switch. When I wanted to switch, I didn't really know who to call in, but then I had an idea.
"Steven's SKARMORY, I choose you!"
"Too bad! You can't switch Steven's Pokémon with one of yours!"
Well... it was worth a shot anyway. To deal with the Camerupt first, I called in LIPLOP. Whenever I could land a good hit with LIPLOP though, Steven's Metang was already in for the kill. I had nothing effective against the Mightyena, so he should have attacked that instead of my own targets. After the Camerupt went down, our opponents sent out their next pokémon. Second matchup: Lv.46 LIPLOP and Lv.42 METANG vs Lv.42 MIGHTYENA and Lv.40 GOLBAT. Right after switching the Golbat in though, Steven hit it with a massive Psychic attack, leaving Golbat's HP in the redzone. I really wanted to finish the Golbat off, so I decided to keep LIPLOP in and use Surf. I was aware that Golbat had super effective moves against LIPLOP, but even if it decided to use the right move, I should be able to survive one hit - I thought. I was half-right, because the darn Golbat used Wing Attack.
"Okay, nothing unexpected so far. What's ne- oh. OH. Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!!! FROM SIX LEVELS BELOW?!"
The Golbat was 6 levels below LIPLOP and his attack only had 60 base damage! How could it kill LIPLOP in one hit from full health?! Oh, I get it, it was a critical hit, but still... It's not fair. :'( With a sour taste, I decided to switch ANUBIS back, because his Rock-type attacks could still beat the Golbat. But once again, Steven stole a kill from me before I could even make a move.
(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/e/e9/271Lombre_Dream.png/revision/latest?cb=20141020140105)
And I realized it just now; LIPLOP was my first pokémon I caught. She was tagging along since the beginning, and now my oldest party member is WILSON. I also lost my only useful Grass-type TM, Giga Drain. I still needed to focus though, so I continued with the third matchup: Lv.46 ANUBIS and Lv.42 METANG vs Lv.42 MIGHTYENA and Lv.38 MIGHTYENA. With 2 Mightyenas on the field, things were looking super bad. I tried to think of a good strategy to get this going. I expected the Mightyenas to persist for a long time, so I decided to build up some damage with Fury Cutter. The plan was looking good, but once again, I barely had enough time to blink and Steven's Metang already killed both Mightyenas. Just what the hell? Well... not that I'm complaining, at least our survival chances highly increased. From here, ANUBIS could finally finish off a pokémon and a half by himself. Well done!
From here on, I equipped WESKER the Wailmer with Surf and Dive, then went on a diving spree. I also went back to previous areas to rematch some of the trainers, but the same trainer that killed SPORE decided that it just wasn't enough. Her lv.39 Vigoroth was once again strong enough to survive Strength/Hyper Beam from my lv.44 WILSON and then she reflected twice the amount of damage back at WILSON with Counter.
(http://snag.gy/zQXiH.jpg)
This is a cruel world. :( Not only did I lose my only reliable Normal-type pokémon, but he was also my oldest living team member. The next oldest member of my team is TERAFUZE, the Torkoal, so I gotta look out for her.
During my diving sessions, I could have caught a Chinchou, which would have been awesome, but RNG decided to give me a Clamperl instead, which sucks.
(http://snag.gy/twNqc.jpg) =/= (http://snag.gy/eW95S.jpg)
When I finally reached Sootopolis City, I was relieved. Before I could get on the shores though, a wild Magikarp jumped at me. It was worth to let MARKUS go during midgame, after all. ^^"
(http://snag.gy/nmiAD.jpg)
The new MARKUS received the name MENOS. As soon as I got to the nearest Poké Center, I gave MENOS a Rare Candy, which resulted in an instant evolution.
(http://snag.gy/09cvo.jpg) (http://snag.gy/QDupF.jpg)
He was still at a low level, so I decided to put him away for later. After I healed up, explored the city and found out that the local gym was closed at the moment, I realized that I still haven't finished everything. Aqua Leader Archie was hiding somewhere underwater, so I had to go back on my diving session (which I was not happy about). I'm gonna skip the pains that I had to go through to the point where I finally found the cave where Archie and his team were hiding. On my way though, I not only encountered his goons and admins, but I also had the pleasure to catch my favorite Poison-type pokémon. :D
(http://snag.gy/6949L.jpg) (http://snag.gy/rRO2F.jpg)
"What shall your name be, Golbat?"
I hadn't really come up with a super-creative name since I named TURBULANCE, but catching this Golbat inspired me. After this name came to my mind, it sticked. Welcome to the team, GLYDLADE!
After beating Archie's goons though, it was time to face Archie himself (for the first time, if I remember correctly). He was about to awaken Kyogre with the Red Orb when I finally got to the scene to save the day.~
First Battle with Aqua Leader Archie!(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/8d/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Archie.png/180px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Archie.png)
You can watch the full battle and the consequences here:
Oh crap! I didn't heal though, so this might end up bad. The first matchup was Lv.41 PERSISTER vs Lv.41 MIGHTYENA, but I didn't have full HP (I just mention here that Archie has a lower level Mightyena than what Maxie had, even though his battle was earlier than Archie's). To get strategic advantage, I opened up with a Swagger, but it backfired quite a bit, so I had to switch out PERSISTER anyway.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/84/101Electrode.png/250px-101Electrode.png)
I didn't want to risk losing anyone in, so I switched in VORTEX. Speaking of VORTEX, I feel like I should mention that because of all the water areas I had to explore, fight through and survive, at lot of times, I faced Water-type opponents that only VORTEX could beat. I also put VORTEX as my party leader when I had long water routes to pass and I had no repels on me. It's ridiculous how many times did I need to rely on VORTEX alone and it's even more ridiculous that VORTEX is more than 10 levels above Archie's strongest pokémon. (Conveniently, the next gym also turns out to be a Water-type gym, so VORTEX is going to sweep the floor with the supposedly "strongest gym leader".)
From here, Archie tried to stall with some Potions and Confuse Ray, but VORTEX was too strong even for him. VORTEX is slowly growing to be my favorite pokémon of this run. In VORTEX we trust.~
After the battle was over, we got a very long cutscene about Kyogre awakening and the apocalypse starting. You can watch the dramatic dialogue in my Archie battle video, but long story short: we needed to go back to Sootopolis City, where Groudon and Kyogre were already in a death battle.
(http://snag.gy/HfIcs.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/vGL3j.jpg)
To be continued...
For LIPLOP:
LIPLOP, the Lombre: Lv.3-46, from Route 102. Died by Magma Admin Tabitha's Lv.40 Golbat. Super effective Wing Attack with critical hit was unexpectedly strong. 1-hit KO.
For WILSON:
WILSON, the Exploud: Lv.6-44, from Rusturf Tunnel. Died by rematch trainer's Lv.39 Vigoroth. After surviving our hit, Counter was too strong. 1-hit KO. Your name was inspired by Dr.Wilson from House.
(http://snag.gy/BCV0c.jpg) (http://snag.gy/Up4uE.jpg)
"Bye-Bye LIPLOP and WILSON! You will be missed. :("
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Exception: No duplicates. If the first encountered Pokémon is already present in your team, you can choose to run away again and again until you find one you don't have. The Pokémon who you don't want to catch must not die or flee before you can run away.
I don't understand why you'd catch more than one wingull or wailmer, surely you'd just keep running till you hit something you didn't have?
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Exception: No duplicates. If the first encountered Pokémon is already present in your team, you can choose to run away again and again until you find one you don't have. The Pokémon who you don't want to catch must not die or flee before you can run away.
I don't understand why you'd catch more than one wingull or wailmer, surely you'd just keep running till you hit something you didn't have?
After my first blackout, I decided to only catch first encounters to increase the difficulty a bit. It's not an official rule though, so I didn't write it down, because I could ignore it if I really wanted.
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Minor note for the previous episode, but soon after LIPLOP fainted, I finally found the stone that could evolve her. Sadly it had no use any more. :/ So close, yet still so far. >_<
I'll quickly sum up the happenings until the point where I am right now in the game. Groudon and Kyogre were fighting in the middle of Sootopolis, but I couldn't fight any of them. Maxie and Archie were chilling out in front of the gym, but they also didn't do anything. Eventually I found and talked to Steven, who told me that I should look for a person called Wallace, who is currently in the Cave of Origins nearby. He showed me the way, but I had to find my way to Wallace alone. On my way to find Wallace I caught a Sableye, which is nice.
(http://snag.gy/NPtRk.jpg) (http://snag.gy/epCb4.jpg)
I finally found Wallace who told me that somewhere, there is a super-ancient pokémon named Rayquaza who can put an end to both Groudon's and Kyogre's rampage. The problem is that he didn't know where to go to find it. Even though he didn't know the location, he narrowed it down to 3 possibilities: Cave of Origins, Mt. Pyre or Sky Pillar. I knew that the answer was Sky Pillar, but I was baffled by him giving me the Cave of Origins as an option. If he did the research to narrow down all areas of Hoenn into 3 small areas, I would think that he would be smart enough to know that Rayquaza is not here. I was curious about his reaction though, so I tried to tell him that it is indeed here where we are right now.
(http://snag.gy/g1uLr.jpg) (http://snag.gy/9HKCG.jpg)
(http://snag.gy/u2zH6.jpg) (http://snag.gy/vFIRO.jpg)
I couldn't resist, I just cracked up at his response. xD "But that's right here! I need you to do better than that!" - What do you expect me to say when you present me such options? But let's move on. After I also tried to tell him that Rayquaza is at Mt. Pyre, we finally got to the point where he told me that I should go to Sky Pillar and awaken the legendary pokémon of the skies. That's exactly what I did, but only after I packed up tons of Repels, because I didn't want any unwanted pokémon catches that would prevent me getting Rayquaza himself.
(http://snag.gy/5pCdw.jpg)
"TL;DR I climbed Sky Pillar, awakened Raquaza, it disappeared, I went back to Sootopolis, Rayquaza apparead and disbanded the fighting legendaries, then everyone was happy again."
All three legendaries disappeared, but at least the Sootopolis gym re-opened. We said our final goodbyes to Maxie and Archie, then they left to return the orbs to Mt. Pyre. After this, Leader Juan was ready to invite us in.
Here is a nice group picture from after the apocalypse was averted.(http://snag.gy/AcN1g.jpg)
Before I went to challenge the next gym, I decided to do some training first. It turned out that GOLBAT, a Poison-Flying type pokémon cannot learn Fly. >_< That makes no sense, because it is not only Flying-type, but it also has wings.
(http://snag.gy/fR82v.jpg)
Also about the training of GLYDLADE, the Golbat, at one point she wanted to learn Air Cutter, which is weaker than Wing Attack, has less accuracy than Wing Attack, but has a high critical-hit ratio. In Diamond, at least Air Cutter was different, because it was a Special attack, but according to a chart, all Flying-type attacks are physical, so it makes no sense for Air Cutter to come later than Wing Attack. (probably it doesn't even have 10% crit-rate)
(http://snag.gy/tq316.jpg)
Another interesting thing I noticed during my training. While I was fishing in Sootopolis Lake with my Super Rod, I managed to hook a lv.15 Gyarados, even though they should only evolve above lv.20. o_O I was truly amazed.
(http://snag.gy/sLPmM.jpg)
Let me tell you about the secret of evolving a Golbat in under 2 hours. For those who don't know, Golbats only evolve when they reach maximum happyness, which can be increased by levelling up, moving around with the pokémon in my party or other special activities. The happyness increase can also be sped up by a Luxury Ball or a Soothe Bell. What I did is that I gave my Soothe Bell to GLYDLADE, switched to an Acro Bike in Mauville City, went to a nearby slope, put a dice and a weigh on the Up key, then I laid down on my couch to watch Pirates of the Caribbean. After an hour or so, GLYDLADE only needed to level up twice, then she finally evolved.
(http://snag.gy/oA287.jpg) (http://snag.gy/09Yys.jpg)
I really like GLYDLADE so far. ^^
Next up: Final Gym Battle: Leader Juan!(http://45.media.tumblr.com/56527888069a0bb2ff4fdd790bc5127d/tumblr_mfv4zkNtZK1s1mxlko8_r3_400.gif)
As usual, you can check the video here, but it's kinda stale:
Remember from last episode when I said that this gym will be a piece of cake for VORTEX? Well, it's exactly what happened. Only Juan's Whiscash and Kingdra required a little bit of strategy, but VORTEX was still 10 levels above his highest pokémon, so it was very easy to pull through.
~TIMEJUMP~
Is my journey really this close to the end? I skipped the boring part for you and now I'm finally on Victory Road. The Elite Four is just some miles away, but I don't feel prepared. I tried catching any new pokémons I could, so I circled around until a wild Aron showed up. A Steel-type would have been a nice addition to my team, but halfway down his health, he decided to use Roar and flee. T_T This meant that I get no new pokémon from Victory Road at all, which is a bummer. The second pokémon I encountered on Victory Road was a Makuhita, which would have also been nice, but he also knew Whirlwind, which was technically the same as Roar.
(http://snag.gy/MjGuk.jpg) (http://snag.gy/FGIhN.jpg)
Training will be especially hard in an area where everyone flees, because I won't get enough experience. I decided to move on, but Wally came out of nowhere and said that he became much stronger and he wants to battle. I didn't expect him at all, but at least I was properly healed up. He had 6 pokémons, but the first 5 was no big deal. His Gardevoir was a different story though. At first I thought that PERSISTER will have no problem handling her, but after 3 Double Teams, the situation started to look dire.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/9/99/282Gardevoir.png/250px-282Gardevoir.png)
Reynold was having flashbacks of the dreaded evasive Shiftry.
I couldn't let that happen again, so I started to think about my pokémon's moves that ignore evasiveness. I had at least 2 options luckily: TRIPLETRAP the Vibrava knew Faint Attack, which not just never missed, but it was also super effective. However, TRIPLETRAP's Sp.Atk stat was still horrible, so I resorted to my second option: VORTEX knew Swift, which also never missed. Luckily VORTEX also had high Sp.Def against GARDEVOIR's Psychic attacks (not to mention the 12 level difference), so he was able to take hits. But just for safety, I also used a Light Screen.
If you are interested how the battle went, you can watch it here:
So in the end, I'm here on Victory Road. My journey is about to end, as the Elite Four is just around the corner. I am nervous a little bit, because I'm not sure what to expect. If you feel like helping me out, I could use some good advices on how to continue. ^^"
Currently I have the following pokémons:
Level 57 VORTEX, the Electrode (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/84/101Electrode.png/250px-101Electrode.png)
Level 47 ANUBIS, the Armaldo (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/1d/348Armaldo.png/250px-348Armaldo.png)
Level 44 TERAFUZE, the Torkoal (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/dd/324Torkoal_AG_anime_2.png/revision/latest?cb=20150101214150)
Level 44 TRIPLETRAP, the Vibrava (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/329.png)
Level 43 PERSISTER, the Mightyena (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png)
Level 43 SWIRLY, the Sealeo (http://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/dream-world/364.svg)
Level 42 GLYDLADE, the Crobat (https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/8786245.png)
Level 41 MENOS, the Gyarados (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/a/ab/130Gyarados_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20131215003841)
Level 35-34-30 Wailmers (WOLSTRAS, WESKER, WINSTRATE) (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100626185252/yovanipokemon/images/3/30/Wailmer.png)
Level 30 SCRAKAZA, the Sableye (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/d3/302Sableye.png/250px-302Sableye.png)
Level 30-28-28 Pelippers (PRISCILLA, WIKIPEDIA, PLOP) (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/279.png)
Level 27 GYRONA, the Geodude (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/074.png)
Level 22 CLERIC, the Clamperl (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/11/366Clamperl.png/250px-366Clamperl.png)
Level 20 TACTICA, the Tentacool (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/4e/072Tentacool.png/250px-072Tentacool.png)
...and possibly anything else that can be caught after Victory Road but before the Elite Four.
I have...
5x Protein (raise Atk), 4x Carbos (raise Speed), 7x PP Up (raise PP), 12x Rare Candy (raise level), 4x Iron (raise Def), 3x HP Up (raise HP), 5x Zinc (raise Sp.Def), 4x Calcium (raise Sp.Atk), 1x PP Max (maximizes PP), and all evolutionary stones are available too.
As blind as I am, I assume that the Elite Four will be Fire, Ice, Dragon and Rock. If the champion is Steven, then I should prepare for Steel-type pokémons too. If there is any pokémon that I should definitely include in my final six, don't hesitate to tell me about it. This is finally it. Once I enter, there is no going back.
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everything but vortex is quite underleveled, I suggest lvl 52 minimum team to have a chance.
Also, level your vibravva more. trust me.
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Also, level your vibravva more. trust me.
Agreed.
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Also, level your vibravva more. trust me.
Agreed.
Do not ask, just do it now!
Fairy tipes are weird XD
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Also, level your vibravva more. trust me.
Agreed.
It turns out that I was just one level away from a Flygon. :)
(http://snag.gy/KWbtb.jpg) (http://snag.gy/y0ta7.jpg)
I never would have guessed that this is what Trapinch evolved into if anyone asked me a month ago.
Thanks for the hint! :) I wonder if Flygon should be one of my final six.
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Flygons pretty beast
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Not your only pokémon to miss only one level to evolve. ;)
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Here is a short update from yesterday. I tried to go back to Sky Pillar to catch Rayquaza, but I ran out of Repels on the second floor. I used a Black Flute and made a final run to the top hoping for no encounter, but sadly I wasn't lucky enough. Drat! No Rayquaza for me. >_< To reflect my feelings about this new pokémon, I called him 'CURSES!'.
(http://snag.gy/ZLJhn.jpg) (http://snag.gy/6Wv0k.jpg)
I don't know if Claydol is any good, so I'm not sure what to do with him. To get a better overview of my available pokémons, I trained most of them up to level 50 (which was a pain).
Here is a short overview of stuff that happened:
I got 2 new evolutions:
(http://snag.gy/9rqvC.jpg) (http://snag.gy/SA0Ni.jpg) I think this evolution is what Ginyu referred to. :)
(http://snag.gy/YTcSN.jpg) (http://snag.gy/CcQ7m.jpg)
I had some near-death experiences:
(http://snag.gy/Z8oun.jpg) Since when do Slakings know Thunderbolt?
I'm seriously considering including MENOS in my final 6 though, because he could survive a 4x effective attack like that.
(http://i.imgur.com/WtoRcj9.png) Why does everyone know Thunderbolt?!
Survived the same Electric attack twice! (with a healing inbetween, of course)
(http://snag.gy/lLz9c.jpg) This critical Psychic almost cost me a Flygon.
(http://snag.gy/BWYgK.jpg) HOLY CRAP! My strongest pokémon barely survived with 1 HP. Why do Slakings know BOTH Earthquake and Thunderbolt???
And here is a pokémon who I didn't have the chance to catch, even though I wanted to:
(http://snag.gy/lyVkI.jpg) If I had Rayquaza, this wouldn't be a problem.
But something interesting happened too!
While I was backtracking for trainer rematches, I remembered that there was a waterfall in Meteor Falls that I couldn't access before. I decided to explore. Deep inside the cave, there were rematchable trainers, but one of them was particulary interesting. For the first time before our battle started, he said something like:
"This is where all dragon trainers like me train their pokémons. Even the CHAMPION visits."
(http://snag.gy/GW53g.jpg)
This second sentence ticked and it immediately raised a question: Is the Champion a user of DRAGON-type pokémon? :o If so, then I was very wrong. Remember that I am mostly doing this blindly, so I have only assumptions about the types of pokémons that the Champion or even the Elite Four will have.
(It's not impossible for the champion to have various types though, so I shouldn't be so surprised if it has Dragons.)
I did a small type-breakdown. If we assume that there won't be a repetitive type among all the gyms, the Elite Four and the Champion, then the following types remain:
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c8/BugIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/48/DragonIC_Big.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png)
There will probably be a Dragon-type based on what the trainer said, but I have no idea about the rest. I have a slight suspicion that Steven will be the champion, so dibs on Steel too. (unless it's Scott. that would be hilarious)
Type Coverage:
With Fire attacks, I could cover Bug, Steel, Ice and Grass.
With Ice types, I could cover most of Ground, Grass and Dragon types.
I'm not afraid of Poison at all, because that's only super-effective against Grass, which I don't have.
Against Dark, I have nothing, but I can teach Brick Break to one of my pokémons, just in case. Brick Break would cover both Steel, Ice and Dark.
The final type available is Ghost, which can be dealt with some Dark-type moves. I can still teach Shadow Ball to a non-ghost type pokémon too.
I have lots of useful TMs too that can provide me with extra coverage and unexpected combos (Dragon Claw[80], Ice Beam[95], Hyper Beam[150], Iron Tail[100], Earthquake[100], Return[102*], Psychic[90], Shadow Ball[80], Brick Break[75], Fire Blast[120], Steel Wing[70], Overheat[140], Surf[95], etc).
[* means that it only works effectively with maximum happyness]
The Available Pokémons:
There are too many candidates for the final six, so I need to narrow the list as much as I can. I will say here my thoughts, but I can be wrong. In case I make a mistake about not including someone or I'm wrong about something (which is possible), then let me know.
1. It seems to me that Clamperl (CLERIC), the Wailmers (WINSTRATE, WESKER and WOLSTRAS) and the Pelippers (WIKIPEDIA, PLOP and PRISCILLA) are outclassed by Walrein (SWIRLY), Tentacruel (TACTICA) and Gyarados (MENOS), so I wouldn't include any of them in the final six.
2. Because of the lack of final evolution, I don't think that GYRONA (Geodude --> Graveler) could do as much good for me as ANUBIS (Armaldo), so I'll leave GYRONA in the box, untrained. (Even though GYRONA's ability is Sturdy, which could prove handy.)
3. I should include no more than 2 Water-type pokémons in my final team, because I have various good alternatives. Including more than 2 would leave me with a less effective type coverage and a major weakness to Electric attacks. (This means that either Walrein, Tentacruel or Gyarados has to be excluded. :()
Overall, there will be 5 pokémons that need to be excluded from the more useful ones. Once again, the available pokémons are the following:
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/84/101Electrode.png/250px-101Electrode.png) | Lv.60 VORTEX, the Electrode
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swift | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Light Screen |
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VORTEX's Speed is so high that he can outspeed anyone. With his high Sp.Def and Light Screen, he can take multiple Special attacks. And even though his Def is not as big, he can still survive an Earthquake from full HP. Electric will be a good addition to my team, because Flying is a common type and Electric is my only super-effective attack against potential Water-types.
By the time we get there, I expect VORTEX to have higher level than the champion's strongest pokémon, so he's definitely staying.
| (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/1/1a/348Armaldo_Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Explorers_of_Sky.png/revision/latest?cb=20150111062329) | Lv.52 ANUBIS, the Armaldo (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Ancientpower | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Metal Claw | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Cut | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c8/BugIC_Big.png) Fury Cutter |
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Cut and Fury Cutter are subjects to change. ANUBIS has a very impressive Atk stat and his Def is also above average. His original attacks are not so strong, but the correct TMs can fix that. Even though he will probably always go last (because of his low Speed stat), he could land deadly hits with stuff like Earthquake or Iron Tail.
| (http://www.game-art-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Flygon-Pokemon-Ruby-Sapphire-Emerald-Official-Art-Render.png) | Lv.51 TRIPLETRAP, the Flygon (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Crunch | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Dig | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/48/DragonIC_Big.png) Dragonbreath | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Faint Attack |
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Faint Attack is subject to change. Our newly discovered Dragon-type pokémon is the only one who can use Dragonbreath or Dragon Claw with STAB. Her stats are overall fairly balanced, even though her Atk is higher than her Sp.Atk, which is a bit disappointing, because she has more special attacks than physical (Dragon, Dark > Ground). For Ground-type attacks though, she not only gets a better Atk boost, but also gets STAB.
| (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/a/ab/130Gyarados_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20131215003841) | Lv.51 MENOS, the Gyarados (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Hydro Pump | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Strength | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Waterfall | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/48/DragonIC_Big.png) Dragon Rage |
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Waterfall and Dragon Rage are subjects to change (Waterfall --> Surf). MENOS has some awesome stats (second highest Atk, good HP, Speed and Sp.Def), but his Sp.Atk is a letdown, which is extra sad if we consider that his most common moves are Water-types, which he would also get STAB for. He could be a good substitute for a Normal-type though, because he can take quite a beating as proved in the past (survived Thunderbolt twice from 3 levels below) and he could hit hard with 100+ power Normal-type attacks.
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3b/324Torkoal.png/250px-324Torkoal.png) | Lv.50 TERAFUZE, the Torkoal (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Fire Blast | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Flamethrower | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Body Slam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Iron Defense |
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TERAFUZE is super slow, so she will always go last. Fire, however, is a very useful type with good resistances. With her high Def stat (higher than anyone else's) combined with Iron Defense, she can take multiple physical attacks. In the beginning, Overheat would be a reliable sweeper move with White Herb (1U restores stat loss), then later it could be switched back to Fire Blast with Charcoal if necessary (Fire Blast has lot of spare TMs).
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/61/365Walrein.png/250px-365Walrein.png) | Lv.50 SWIRLY, the Walrein (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Blizzard | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Aurora Beam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Body Slam |
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SWIRLY has fairly balanced stats with high HP (highest HP stat of entire team). Her high HP might be enough to pull out a Rest + anti-sleep berry combo without risking a faint. SWIRLY is my only pokémon who naturally learns ICE-type moves and also gets STAB for them, so her Ice-type attacks are the strongest, especially with Nevermeltice. If we're going to face Dragon-types, we should use all icepower that we can get. However, apart from Aurora Beam, everything else can be taugth to all other Water-type pokémons [there is 1 TM for Ice Beam (which is stronger than Aurora Beam), while Blizzard has unlimited TMs]. Out of the 3 available Water pokémons, only SWIRLY has 2 different-type attacks that both get STAB, which raises her versatility a bit.
| (https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/8786245.png) | Lv.50 GLYDLADE, the Crobat (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) Poison Fang | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/cb/FlyingIC_Big.png) Fly | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/73/GhostIC_Big.png) Confuse Ray |
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Stat-wise, GLYDLADE has a combination of decent HP, Speed and Atk, which is good for quickly inflicting a Confuse Ray and then dealing some fast damage. Regardless how much I loved using Crobat in Diamond, they don't seem to learn Cross Poison and X-Scissor in Emerald. All GLYDLADE's naturally learned attacks have 60 power or below and even Fly has only 70 power. Confuse Ray is the main reason why I love using Crobat, but it doesn't do much without proper offensive moves. She is one of the few though who can learn Shadow Ball by TM (the others are Claydol and Mightyena. Sableye learns it naturally).
| (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/e/eb/073Tentacruel_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20140829052301) | Lv.50 TACTICA, the Tentacruel (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) Acid | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Barrier | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Supersonic |
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Acid and Supersonic are subjects to change. TACTICA's Sp.Def is the second highest in the whole team, and while her Defense is just decent, Barrier can sharply raise it. Her HP and Speed are higher at the cost of her Atk and Sp.Atk being lower. A stronger Poison-type attack would be good, but I haven't found any Poison-type TMs yet (except Toxic, but I already lost it).
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f1/262Mightyena.png/250px-262Mightyena.png) | Lv.43 PERSISTER, the Mightyena (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Bite | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Take Down | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swagger |
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PERSISTER can only learn Normal and Dark type moves naturally. She lacks Sp.Atk to power up her Dark moves, so she would mostly rely on Normal attacks and other TMs, but powerful Normal moves can be taught to anyone (including her). At least she is one of the few who can learn the TM Shadow Ball, which is a Physical attack (for some reason). I need to elevate her to level 50 to see how she compares to others. If TRIPLETRAP outclasses her, then PERSISTER will be excluded from the final 6.
| (http://pldh.net/media/dreamworld/344.png) | Lv.36 CURSES!, the Claydol
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Selfdestruct | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Ancientpower | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Sandstorm | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Hyper Beam |
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Holy Sh!@, how did I even weaken and catch this brigand if he knew Selfdestruct? Well anyway... From his stats, I suspect that he will be one of those pokémons who have both of their defenses high, but their attacks are weak. He is the only one who can learn both Shadow Ball and Psychic, so he wouldn't be useless and he would also get good STAB. He has several weaknesses though, so he might not be my best option for stalling.
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/d3/302Sableye.png/250px-302Sableye.png) | Lv.30 SCRAKAZA, the Sableye (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Rock Smash | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Cut | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Flash | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Faint Attack |
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All hail zero weaknesses (and 3 immunities)! For now he's merely a HM slave, so I have no idea how good is he. He is probably able to deliver some nice STAB attacks without needing to worry about a super-effective counterattack, which sounds nice. He can learn TMs like Shadow Ball, Psychic, Shockwave, Brick Break and even Focus Punch, so versatility wouldn't be a problem. His stats cannot be compared to the others yet, so I need to train him up to level 50 (which sucks, by the way).
My training plan is the following:
1. Train candidates to level 50.
2. Compare them and choose the final six.
3. Distribute my 14 remaining Rare Candies between them (except VORTEX, who is already high level enough).
4. Distribute all available vitamins (Protein, PP Up, etc) as I see it necessary.
5. Buy more vitamins from either Slateport or Lilycove City until I run out of money (almost).
6. Distribute the new vitamins. Spend the remaining money on healing items for the upcoming battles.
My final team will probably include VORTEX, ANUBIS and TRIPLETRAP, plus 1 or 2 Water-types (probably MENOS). CURSES! and PERSISTER are not in my favorites so far, so they have to improve big-time if they want to stay. Other than that, nothing is sure yet.
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Sturdy is a very weak ability in Gen 3 - it only prevents true OHKO moves (Horn Drill, Fissure, etc.). It was later buffed to prevent dying to a single hit from anything, which is what you might remember. So you're not missing much in Gen 3 by not using it.
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don't worry about Persister. He sucks for late game, leveling him would be a waste of time. Personally the downside of the Special Split in Gen 3 makes Gyrados way too annoying a choice.
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Sturdy is a very weak ability in Gen 3 - it only prevents true OHKO moves (Horn Drill, Fissure, etc.). It was later buffed to prevent dying to a single hit from anything, which is what you might remember. So you're not missing much in Gen 3 by not using it.
I noticed that multiple Lairons survived strong attacks with 1 (or at least very low) HP in Victory Road, so I'm not sure about this. But it can be a very odd coincidence. ^^"
don't worry about Persister. He sucks for late game, leveling him would be a waste of time. Personally the downside of the Special Split in Gen 3 makes Gyrados way too annoying a choice.
Thanks for the hint about Persister. :) I continued the training with SCRAKAZA instead.
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elk is right; Sturdy was buffed in 5th Gen. Odd, but real coincidence. ^^
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Stuff like this hurts:
(http://snag.gy/3qx8B.jpg)
And from full HP too. >_< Freaking critical, super-effective Revenge with STAB on a Machop.
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Yeah sabley sucks in game. Decent with teh right set in PvP but yeah, sucks in-game
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My final team is ready.
All Rare Candies were distributed and now everybody is at least level 58.
All other vitamins failed to be used, because I trained everyone to max EVs. I should have used the vitamins first, and only then do the EV training.
(http://snag.gy/AciTq.jpg) (http://snag.gy/LkQjz.jpg) (http://snag.gy/7942a.jpg)
Useless HMs were deleted, new TMs were given and so my team was finally ready to enter the Elite Four:
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/61/365Walrein.png/250px-365Walrein.png) | Lv.58 SWIRLY, the Walrein (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Blizzard | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/6f/IceIC_Big.png) Ice Beam | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Return |
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| | (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/de/101Electrode_AG_Anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20141208030807) | Lv.61 VORTEX, the Electrode
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Thunder | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/4a/ElectricIC_Big.png) Spark | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Swift | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Rain Dance |
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| (http://www.game-art-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Flygon-Pokemon-Ruby-Sapphire-Emerald-Official-Art-Render.png) | Lv.58 TRIPLETRAP, the Flygon (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/8f/GroundIC_Big.png) Earthquake | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/48/DragonIC_Big.png) Dragon Claw | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/DarkIC_Big.png) Crunch | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Steel Wing |
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| | (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/e/eb/073Tentacruel_AG_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20140829052301) | Lv.58 TACTICA, the Tentacruel (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Hydro Pump | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/3d/PoisonIC_Big.png) Sludge Bomb | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Barrier |
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| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/1d/348Armaldo.png/250px-348Armaldo.png) | Lv.58 ANUBIS, the Armaldo (♂)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Hyper Beam | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/d4/SteelIC_Big.png) Iron Tail | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/67/FightingIC_Big.png) Brick Break | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/ce/RockIC_Big.png) Ancientpower |
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| | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3b/324Torkoal.png/250px-324Torkoal.png) | Lv.58 TERAFUZE, the Torkoal (♀)
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Overheat | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/26/FireIC_Big.png) Flamethrower | | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Return | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/6/60/PsychicIC_Big.png) Amnesia |
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I still have some spare TMs on me in case I change my mind about some moves, but basically this will be it for the rest of the game.
In the next episode, we're going in. Wish me luck!
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You're going to try the pokemon league at lvl 58 in nuzlocke? Id be a little bit more cautious than that personally, and wouldn't go in until everyone was lvl 65.
Gl!
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I think that team turned out quite well, although I agree with pumping a few more levels into it if possible. At a glance, 2x Return is the one large question mark I see with the team. Also worth looking at the type overlaps on Blizzard/Ice Beam, Thunder/Spark, Hydro Pump/Surf, and Overheat/Flamethrower and considering (though not necessarily implementing) alternatives to those.
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yeah thinking about it, 58 is about what i would go into E4 with a tonne of revives and potions. In a Nuzlocke they should be much higher
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You're going to try the pokemon league at lvl 58 in nuzlocke? Id be a little bit more cautious than that personally, and wouldn't go in until everyone was lvl 65.
Gl!
The highest level that people were suggesting me was level 55, but now I'm worried.
I think that team turned out quite well, although I agree with pumping a few more levels into it if possible. At a glance, 2x Return is the one large question mark I see with the team. Also worth looking at the type overlaps on Blizzard/Ice Beam, Thunder/Spark, Hydro Pump/Surf, and Overheat/Flamethrower and considering (though not necessarily implementing) alternatives to those.
Return should have around 100 power, because everyone is at max happyness. The reason why I chose Return is that it has no drawbacks and it also has decent power. Hyper Beam has recharge time, Facade requires the user to be burned, poisoned or paralyzed, Double-Edge has recoil damage and the other moves are just not strong enough.
I should have pumped more levels into my team, but before using all my Rare Candies. Now I just screwed myself, because training would be double as tedious as before. :/ I can try though, but no promises. About the '2 moves of the same type on the same pokémon', I did that because I couldn't decide if I wanted a big hitter with 70-85 accuracy or a decent attack with 100 accuracy. Technically though, I could have replaced SWIRLY's Ice Beam with Hail and replace Tentacruel's Surf with that Ice Beam instead. Ice Beam is already used, however.
I browsed through my TMs and it seems like I already used up all my better moves. I only have some status moves (Rest, Attract, Substitute, Double Team, weather moves, etc), Normal-type attacks (Double-Edge, Return, Facade, Secret and Hidden Power), HMs (Surf, Strength) and risky moves like Dynamic Punch and the Thunder-Blizzard-FireBlast-HyperBeam quad.
yeah thinking about it, 58 is about what i would go into E4 with a tonne of revives and potions. In a Nuzlocke they should be much higher
Alright. Final question then. How high should the team be to have a decent chance?
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Actually, just checked and you should be fine. The champion's highest level is 58, so any extra leveling you do would be a bonus, but i think you have the skill to get through fairly unscathed.
Any more leveling may detract from the challenge, though bringing the whole squad to level 61 might be a decent idea, as some pokemon's movesets might take you by suprise :P
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Actually, just checked and you should be fine. The champion's highest level is 58, so any extra leveling you do would be a bonus, but i think you have the skill to get through fairly unscathed.
Any more leveling may detract from the challenge :P
I don't think I could have trained for too long, so that's good. ^^" I'll see if I can squeeze in a level or more though. It's all about chances and matchups from now on.
Alright. Today, Reynold is challenging the Elite Four! Hopefully I can record (and survive) the first 2 battles.
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I assume you got healing items so you can heal up to full between matches?
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if theyre exactly 58 Id be 63-65 cause the champions will be stronger than that, and Id want to not have 1 casualty in a nuzlocke. just my opinion though
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I assume you got healing items so you can heal up to full between matches?
Indeed. Though I lack PP restoring items and they don't seem to be sold at Pokémarts. I only have 1 Leppa Berry left, so planting and growing more would take a really long time, because I would first need to wait until my first berry grows, then I would need to check on my berry every ~6 hours to water it. TL;DR: I have 1 Elixir, 1 Leppa Berry and 3 Max Elixirs and it will be bad when I run out. Sounds exciting, huh?
if theyre exactly 58 Id be 63-65 cause the champions will be stronger than that, and Id want to not have 1 casualty in a nuzlocke. just my opinion though
You're right that overleveling is a good way to be safe against the champion, but I'm trying to find that sweet spot where it's not very hard, but still challenging. Hopefully it's around level 59-62, because that's where I am right now.
(I'm gonna level up through the Elite Four too, I expect.)
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We finally set foot in the Elite Four!Video with commentary can be found here!
The legends are true; After entering, there is no return. Not knowing what pokémons will the first Elite Four member have, I put TACTICA in first place, because she can take many hits. I finally entered the first room, where Sidney, the Dark-type Elite Four member awaited me.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/fa/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Sidney.png/180px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Sidney.png)
FIRST ELITE FOUR MEMBER: SIDNEY
I was hyped up for an epic fight, because everyone told me that I should level up some more to be safe. In reality though, all Sidney's pokémons were 9-12 levels below my weakest. o_O During the entire fight with him, only TERAFUZE took damage. Even though there were some interesting moments, the only important thing is that I easily swept through his team. Game Over, Sid!
I healed up TERAFUZE, then I was ready to fight the second Elite Four member.
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/f/f8/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Phoebe.png/revision/latest?cb=20140715010349)
SECOND ELITE FOUR MEMBER: PHOEBE
Is it just me, or does Phoebe look like Brock, but with eyes? Nevermind. It turned out that she was a user of Ghost-type pokémon, which I had only one super-effective move against in my entire team. After TACTICA beat her first pokémon, I sent out TRIPLETRAP to Crunch the soul out of the rest of her pokémons. It started well, with a Banette being one-shot killed, but then she decided to send out her Dusclops, who apparenty had ICE BEAM! My only luck was that she was so low level, otherwise TRIPLETRAP could have died there.
Other than this though, nothing really interesting happened, because all her pokémons were still very low level. I really hope that things will get much stronger towards the Champion, otherwise it will be too easy.
Now a special comment about my video. For the first two fights in the Elite Four I decided to do a commentary, but it didn't work out too well. You can still hear me talking under the music, so if that didn't bother you and you want more, then I can do a commentary for the rest of the Elite Four. ^^
The reason why uploading this episode took so long is because I needed to create subtitles for the video in order for you to understand what I'm rambling.
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I would like to hear more of your amazing voice.
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We finally had thrilling battles again!
After healing my team up, I moved on to the next room. I was still a bit disappointed from the easy battles we had before, so I decided to skip PP restoration. When I arrived to the next room, it was kinda obvious that it will be an Ice-type Elite Four member, so I decided to put TERAFUZE in first place.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/d/d6/Glacia_room_RSE.png/200px-Glacia_room_RSE.png)
I didn't think that I would have a proper battle to show off all my strategies, so I decided to start using them without a goal in mind. One strategy I had was to give TERAFUZE the White Herb, which restores her Special Attack after using Overheat, thus making it possible to spam stronger Overheats for a turn longer. Fire was super-effective against Ice, so I thought that this battle would be the perfect opportunity to use this strategy.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3c/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Glacia.png/200px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Glacia.png)
THIRD ELITE FOUR MEMBER: GLACIA
Elite Four part 2 video: to be done later
Even though there was a request from my old pal Linkcat to do a commentary again, I decided to stop spouting non-sense throughout my videos. I think I would have just repeated the same thing over and over: "Alright!", "Let's do this!", "S***'s about to go down!", "Damn, why is this so easy?", "I'm much higher level.", etc.
Back in the duel with Glacia! First matchup: Lv.58 TERAFUZE vs Lv.50 SEALEO. GO, TERAFU- uh, wait... Let's not do that. >_> I was right that Glacia will be an Ice-user, but I didn't expect the Water dual type. Afraid of a strong Water-type attack, I decided to switch out TERAFUZE. VORTEX seemed like a good substitute, and holy cow I was right about switching VORTEX in. VORTEX was originally sent out to deal super-effective damage to Sealeo, but the opposing Sealeo used Hail, which would have been very annoying on the long run. It's a good thing that I had Rain Dance on me for strategic purposes, so I could get rid of Hail instantly. This is not obvious knowledge, so I'm just gonna share it right away: normally Thunder only has 70 accuracy, but if Thunder is used when it is raining, its accuracy jumps to 100. This was one of my main strategies among using White Herb and other stuff, so I was glad that I could actually use it for real and not for just for showing off.
After removing the Hail, Sealeo managed to paralyze VORTEX with a Body Slam, but VORTEX's Static also paralyzed Sealeo. Despite the paralyze, VORTEX could work through it, and he was still faster, which allowed him to move first with a Thunder next turn. It was a glorious one-shot kill!
(http://orig01.deviantart.net/d8e5/f/2013/140/c/8/electrode_by_dburch01-d65ynz2.png) VS (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/7/70/E_364_front.gif/revision/latest?cb=20140821023933)
Next up: Second matchup: Lv.61 VORTEX(par) vs Lv.50 GLALIE. It was still raining, the level difference was in my favor and Glalie had no type-disadvantages on me. I decided to keep Thundering, but because of the paralyze, Glalie was faster than me and it quickly put up a Light Screen, which blocked tons of damage from my Electric-type attacks. Even though Thunder was not as good as I planned it, it still managed to paralyze the opponent. :D VORTEX is on a roll and I like it!*
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbIWxFzW8AEsqMB.png)
Light Screen was annoying and it obviously had to go. It's a good thing that I had the perfect move to get rid of it. ;) We gave a free turn to Glalie so that Reynold could switch in ANUBIS, but luckily Glalie was still paralyzed from the last Thunder and it couldn't move. Not only that, but its paralyze also enabled ANUBIS to move first next turn. It was time to use Brick Break, which was not only super-effective, but also shattered the opponent's Light Screen like glass. 8) With the Light Screen, Glalie also went down, leading to our next matchup:
Lv.58 ANUBIS vs Lv.53 WALREIN. Glacia just sent out her big guns.
"AND HERE I GOT SUPER LUCKY!"
The easy sweep of the first two Elite Four members was still haunting me, so I decided to play with fire as they say and keep ANUBIS in a double-edged matchup, where probably both of us had super-effective moves against each other. I tried to land another Brick Break, but Walrein was faster with non other than SURF, which holy cow almost killed me! And it WOULD HAVE KILLED ME if it wasn't for this before the turn started:
(https://snag.gy/8HVW5v.jpg)
The rain I previously summoned with VORTEX almost backfired on me, but it wore off at the perfect time! With only 44 HP left, I decided to switch out ANUBIS. (We both healed from our held items at the end of that turn. Walrein from her berry, while ANUBIS from his Shell Bell. I duly noted that Shell Bell sucks and it has to be replaced after we're done here.)
Even though he was paralyzed (and also almost caused a casualty), I switched VORTEX back to get the job done, but this also meant that we gave a free turn to Walrein. I wasn't afraid at first, but damn that Surf became a true force to be reckoned with.
"It was a critical hit!"
(https://snag.gy/1xv7mK.jpg)
I could have let VORTEX do a Spark to finish Walrein off, because he would have been faster (even through the paralyze), but because of the paralyze, I was afraid that he might not be able to move and eat the next attack without being able to fight back. It was time to play it safe! I couldn't afford to lose my party leader, so I switched in SWIRLY.
(http://i.imgur.com/PQtVF3i.png) VS (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/61/365Walrein.png/250px-365Walrein.png)
Now this was a matchup that was perfectly in my favor. We had the same pokémons, but I was 5 levels higher, I still had an item, my Normal-type attack had more power and we also had EV-advantage (unless Glacia EV-trained her Walrein too). Despite all our advantages though, Glacia still had some tricks up her sleeve. For example, Body Slam barely did any damage to us, but on her second try it paralyzed SWIRLY. And just when I thought that I was ready, Glacia used a Full Restore. Those gimmicks weren't enough to fend us off for long though, because SWIRLY quickly came back with a critical Surf hit, which took down half of Walrein's HP. :) Using our last PP of Ice Beam was a complete waste (barely did any damage), but SWIRLY's persistent Returns were enough to seal the seal.* (and we were also lucky enough to never lose a turn to being paralyzed)
Next up, Glacia was about to send out her second Sealeo. We were quite beat up at the time: SWIRLY was in the orange-zone and paralyzed, VORTEX was in the redzone and paralyzed, ANUBIS had lower HP than SWIRLY and TRIPLETRAP was 4 times weak to any Ice-type moves (and I totally forgot about TERAFUZE, but she wouldn't have been able to do much against Water anyway). My only real choice here was to send out TACTICA and resist everything.
Fourth matchup: Lv.58 TACTICA vs Lv.52 SEALEO. I played it safe and started with a Barrier. Then the dreaded Hail returned! It was time to deal some damage with Sludge Bomb, which was also lucky enough to poison Glacia's Sealeo. It was strange seeing that, because it was the first time when Sludge Bomb actually poisoned something in this game for me. But it was the perfect time for it to do that, because that turn's poison damage was absolutely necessary to turn TACTICA's next Sludge Bomb into a finishing move. With her last Sealeo down, she was left with a single pokémon.
Here I have no idea why I didn't switch in TERAFUZE, but it's too late to think about it now. Against Glacia's last Glalie, I decided to keep TACTICA in battle and slowly chip her down with Sludge Bombs. It was still hailing, which was annoying, but I thought that I could finish her off faster than she would chip down my HP to 0. Just to be safe, I opened up with another Barrier. I was set up for surviving many hits, so I was ready to turn TACTICA in Offence mode. The first Sludge Bomb hit really good while the Glalie's Ice Beams barely did any damage. However, that was only until TACTICA was frozen solid by one of her Ice Beams. I still had some "safe" turns left, so I decided to wait it out until TACTICA thaws. It was still hailing though, which - combined with Glalie's Ice Beams - chipped down our HP twice as fast. We survived several turns, just waiting for the thaw, but it never came until we were finally down to the redzone (15 HP left). At that point, switchout was inevitable and I had no idea who to switch in... until I noticed that I still have TERAFUZE. And with full health too!
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemon/images/d/dd/324Torkoal_AG_anime_2.png/revision/latest?cb=20150101214150)
TERAFUZE was exactly who I needed in that situation, because she was not only unscathed, but she was also super-effective against pure Ice-tpyes. Here I could have went with an Overheat, but because I'm extremely resourceful (if I used Overheat, White Herb would have been consumed) and I was pretty sure that it would be just overkill, I decided to use Flamethrower instead, which was just as good. In the end, Glacia went down and I had zero casualties. Well done, team! But it was not over yet, because there was still one Elite Four member left.
(https://snag.gy/1z2cYk.jpg)
Glacia gave us a proper beating, but at least everyone was still alive. I still didn't want to restore any PP, but I at least wanted everyone back at full health and without any status conditions. I had plenty of Super Potions and it was probably the first time in the entire game when I had to use one of my Ice Heals, but I had to realize that I have zero Parlyz Heals or Cheri Berries to cure me of Paralysis. I also had zero Lava Cookies or Full Heals, which made me think that I'll have to finish the Pokémon League with 2 pokémons paralyzed by default.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c2/E_TMs_and_HMs_pocket_M.png)
"Was I really that stupid that I didn't pack anything to heal the most basic of status ailments??!"
(if we don't count Poisoning to be the most basic status ailment, but that is besides the point)
"Well, I mean... Fippe even told you to stock up on stuff. You couldn't really forget about it, could you?"
Yeah, don't bet against me yet. I DID pack something to heal paralysis, I just forgot what the stuff I bought did. I had 14 Full Restores in the bottom of my bag, which I preserved for situations exactly like this one. CRISIS AVERTED! On to the next Elite Four member!
(this post turned out to be far too long, so I'm cutting this episode in 2 halves. To be continued soon...)
(there were puns hidden in this episode, marked by small stars. Can you find them?)
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That was exciting. This is the reason we told you to over level. The elite 4 ramps up in dificulty extremely quickly, and to stand a chance of finishing it, you HAD to find the first few easy
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That was exciting. This is the reason we told you to over level. The elite 4 ramps up in dificulty extremely quickly, and to stand a chance of finishing it, you HAD to find the first few easy
It makes more sense now. Even though I would have enjoyed a bit more challenge from the first two Elite Four members. ^^"
I still had one more E4 member before the Champion though.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/3e/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Drake.png/250px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Drake.png)
FINAL ELITE FOUR MEMBER: DRAKE
The Elite Four's battle music is so good that I kept humming to it all day. When I looked around in Drake's room (looking for clues), I only saw some weird spikes on the floor, which made me think that he's going to be a Ground-type trainer. I did the things that were necessary: switched a Water-type in leading position, removed Shell Bell from ANUBIS, replaced it with a Hard Stone, but I still didn't restore any PP on purpose. (funfact: Ice Beam had 0 PP left for SWIRLY.)
First matchup: Lv.58 TACTICA vs Lv.52 SHELGON. Oh, duh! It is the Dragon-type "champion" that the trainer in Meteor Falls warned me about some episodes ago. Either that or the Champion will have Dragon-type pokémons too. Now that I finally knew what I was working with, I could start thinking of a strategy. The only valid strategy that came to my mind though was to switch in SWIRLY and use Ice-type attacks. But as I said, SWIRLY's most reliable Ice-type attack, Ice Beam, had 00 PP left.
"Lol. Ironic."
Well, I wanted a challenge and I got myself a challenge. All is fair in love, war and pokémon battles. After analyzing my situation, I found it best to start with a Barrier again. It was the perfect call, because Shelgon decided to use Protect. I didn't want to potentially waste a Hydro Pump, so I used Surf next, just in case Shelgon uses Protect again. Surf only took down a third of Shelgon's HP, so next I decided to use Hydro Pump. When Shelgon was down to the redzone, I remembered that they have Full Restores, so instead of going easy on him, I decided to use Hydro Pump again. Once again, it was the right call.
"But then I started wasting moves when Shelgon started to use Protect again."
And that was it. I wasted my last PP for Hydro Pump on that turn. Now I have 2 moves on my team that cannot use. I decided to continue with Surf, but he Protected again. It went like this for a while until Shelgon was finally knocked out.
After Shelgon fell, Drake was about to send out Flygon. I wanted a much smoother matchup than the previous was, so I switched in my only Ice-type pokémon to have the upper hand. Second matchup: Lv.58 SWIRLY vs Lv.53 FLYGON. Ice Beam was still out of PP, so I used Blizzard and hoped that it would hit. After shrugging off an Earthquake, my hopes came true and Blizzard hit Flygon and even knocked it out. I expected nothing less from a move with 4x type effectiveness. ;) And I also expected no less from Blizzard in the following matchup:
Lv.58 SWIRLY vs Lv.55 SALAMENCE. I knew that even though Salamence was Drake's highest level pokémon, if Blizzard hits it with Over 100 base power + Ice STAB + Nevermeltice + 4x effectiveness, then it's over. It didn't fully go as planned though, because Salamence was super fast and he quickly summoned a Rock Slide on me!
"And this is what I cannot get over with!"
Salamence was clearly Drake's strongest pokémon and it was only 3 levels below SWIRLY. I know that Rock Slide didn't get STAB, but it was super effective and IMO it should have killed SWIRLY here. But instead, it dealt an unreasonably low amount of damage. Since SWIRLY survived Salamence's attack, Blizzard could hit and as I expected, it killed Salamence in a single hit.
Next matchup: Lv.58 ANUBIS vs Lv.54 ALTARIA. Even though SWIRLY survived that Rock Slide, she was not in the shape for another battle. Against Flying-types, ANUBIS' Rock-type attack seemed like the best option. Ancientpower almost killed Altaria in one hit, but he somehow managed to survive in the redzone. I was once again aware of Full Restores, so instead of going easy on him, I used Ancientpower again.
"It was the right choice! Elite Four Drake used Full Restore!"
It didn't matter much though, because next turn he was down to the redzone again. I was pretty sure that he only had 2 Full Restores and he already ran out of them, so I risked using a Brick Break as a finishing move. The foe's Altaria managed to land a final Dragonbreath, but in the end, it went down with grace.
The final matchup was against Drake's Lv.53 Kingdra. Kingdra was already used as a finisher by Juan, so I had experience with them. I knew that VORTEX should be able to handle it, like he handled that last Kingdra too. VORTEX was Lv.62, so I felt good about the matchup. I expected Drake to start out with a Double Team (just as Juan did), so I decided to use Spark instead of Thunder to land more accurate hits. Spark chipped down a third of Kingdra's HP, then it was his turn. At first he used Dragon Dance, which raised his Speed and Attack. After taking down his second third of his HP, he used Dragon Dance again. With that though, he wasted his opportunity to ever become useful, because VORTEX was still faster (even after the 2 Dragon Dances), he ran out of Full Restores (or at least I hoped so) and I also had the right move to finish him off. My match versus Drake met an anti-climactic ending. Well done, team!
ON THE NEXT EPISODE: We face off with the Hoenn Champion!
I'll probably restore my team's PPs, but maybe not. So far I had opponents that I went easy against, but I will go all-out against the Champion. I wonder if it will be Steven, Scott or someone entirely different (rofl, May. It would explain why she didn't show up before entering the Elite Four).
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Video is finally up too:
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If all you said was "Alright!" over and over for the entire video, I would still watch it.
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FINALE!
After defeating the last Elite Four member, it was time to meet the Champion. I didn't really know what to expect, so I decided to keep TACTICA as the party leader. When I was walking up the stairs to the final room, I tried to figure out who the champion might be. I doubted that it would be someone who we never met, so I was thinking about potential people who we have met before. I was pretty confident that it will be Steven, but Scott seemed like a viable option too.
"We are entering the Champion's room! Is it going to be Steven? Is it Scott or May? IS IT FREAKING WALLY?!"
"What?! Who is this guy? Wallace? You're drunk Wallace, get outta here."
But wait. Wasn't Wallace the previous Water-type gym leader before Juan took over? Well, get rekt Wallace, I bet you never heard that my strongest pokémon is an Electric-type. 8) It was really VORTEX's time to shine here - I thought to myself.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e5/Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Wallace.png/230px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Wallace.png)
HOENN LEAGUE CHAMPION WALLACE
If there's one thing I love about Pokémon games, it's the music. But let's talk about the strategics now. First matchup: Lv.58 TACTICA vs Lv.57 WAILORD. The opponent's levels were satisfyingly high. For the first matchup, I wish that I could send out VORTEX right away, but I already assigned TACTICA as the party leader, so I needed to get rid of Wailord first. Just for caution, I started with a Barrier. Wailord, on the other hand, decided to use Rain Dance. Heck, if VORTEX would be in play, I wouldn't even need to cast Rain Dance for the Thunder boost, because they are already doing it for me. (Looking back, the perfect strategy would have been to instantly switch in VORTEX, so that he can spam Thunders after they cast Rain Dance for me. That would have required me to know that they will cast Rain Dance on the first turn though, which I didn't.) Luckily 2 Sludge Bombs were enough to get rid of Wailord (the second was a critical hit).
(http://clipartsign.com/upload/2016/02/06/fruit-banana-images-in-hd-clipart.png) (http://veekun.com/dex/media/pokemon/dream-world/321.svg)
(I added a banana for scale. These things are enormous!)
For the second matchup, I was ready to send out VORTEX, but then this happened:
"Champion Wallace is about to use Whiscash. Will you change pokémon?"
"Umm... let's not send out VORTEX just yet. >_>"
I wanted to save VORTEX for another fight for 3 reasons: 1. Electric doesn't affect Ground, so I would be stuck with Swift; 2. Ground is super-effective against Electric; and 3. Even if VORTEX would win against Whiscash (which I'm pretty sure he would), he wouldn't be able to 1-hit kill the opponent. Against Whiscash, I needed something that was super-effective against Ground, but was not weak against Water and Ground. Considering these factors, SWIRLY seemed like the best option. Lv.58 SWIRLY vs Lv.56 WHISCASH. For my first attack, it didn't really matter if I used a Water or an Ice-type attack, but because the rain was still falling, I decided to use Surf, which dealt a significant amount of damage, leaving Whiscash in the orange zone: low enough that another attack can kill him, but high enough that Wallace won't use a Potion to heal him. Whiscash wasted his turn by using Amnesia - which raised his Sp.Def sharply -, so next turn I moved first and went for the kill. I was afraid that my Special Attacks wouldn't have enough power to finish him, so I used Return, which paid off nicely. Two down! Four to go.~
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/6/60/340Whiscash.png/250px-340Whiscash.png)
Wallace was about to send out Ludicolo. I REALLY wanted to send out VORTEX, so after some contemplating, I did so. Third matchup: Lv.62 VORTEX vs Lv.56 LUDICOLO. It was a dumb idea! Not only the rain stopped, but I also forgot that Grass-type resisted Electric. And even though Grass was super-effective against Water, SWIRLY with Ice Beam or TACTICA with Sludge Bomb would have been much smarter ideas to start with. After the rain stopped, I was left with no other good option than Spark. Spark did jack-doodly-squat though (which is slang for nothing), and to make things even WORSE, it started chaining Double Teams! (For reminder, Double Team on a different Grass-type pokémon was the main reason why I first blacked out.) After the first Double Team, I dropped the idea of trying Spark and started using Swift, but it did even less than Spark did.
"Let's make things worse. Disable any stalling strategies by using Leech Seed on the player." <-- the AI, probably.
Leech Seed really ticked me off, so I decided to go into YOLO mode and use Thunder. For my biggest surprise, it struck! :o He was finally in killing range, but... ermm... Okay, what the hell was I doing back then? Instead of doing the right thing (freakin' 2 times in a row!), I decided to switch out VORTEX to get rid of the Leech Seed. TACTICA seemed like a good substitute with her Sludge Bomb, so I switched her in. She managed to resist some damage from the upcoming Surf, which was nice, but then I was slapped in the face by reality when Sludge Bomb missed. And then Ludicolo used Giga Drain to heal back even more HP. Things were not looking good at all for me.
This was a very annoying moveset.
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/3/39/NormalIC_Big.png) Double Team | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Giga Drain |
| (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/56/WaterIC_Big.png) Surf | (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/74/GrassIC_Big.png) Leech Seed |
Sludge Bomb missed 3 times in a row, which gave Ludicolo 3 free turns to GiGa Drain himself back to above half HP. After these 3 turns I lost hope that I could hit him with TACTICA, so I decided to look for alternatives. Switching in SWIRLY was my third poor choice against the same opponent. Blizzard missed, he used another Double Team, then I finally realized that only VORTEX has even a slight chance to win this matchup. Switching in VORTEX game Ludicolo an extra turn for a free Giga Drain, which healed him back to almost full HP. >_>
"Do we have any chance to come back from this situation though? Our attacks cannot even land on our foe, except Swift, which cannot outdamage the healing of Giga Drain and Leech Seed combined."
Well, we do have one thing actually, which I should have used in the first place. I decided to go for the Rain Dance + Thunder combo again. It was a risky move, because the long preparation time gave extra time for my opponent to attack me, but I had no other options left. A new Leech Seed was deployed, which didn't cease to be annoying.
"And finally we were ready! VORTEX, use Thunder!"
And it worked! Thunder hit, and it hit for more than half of Ludicolo's HP, but he was still alive in the orange-zone (which was at least not the zone where Wallace uses his potions). I only needed to survive his next attack + the damage from Leech Seed, and then I was ready for the kill. Luckily, he was so confused that something could hit him that he decided to use Double Team again, which was luckily a waste of a turn on his part. At the end of the turn though, Leech Seed recovered a dangerously decent amount of HP to Ludicolo, so the kill was not guaranteed yet. It was still raining on the next turn, so it was time to use Thunder again. The moment of truth... ! And finally we got rid of Ludicolo! :D (I was very close to death here, because if last turn Ludicolo decided to use Giga Drain instead of Double Team, I might not have been able to kill him this turn, giving him enough time to deal even more damage combined with an extra turn of Leech Seed.)
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/ff/272Ludicolo.png/250px-272Ludicolo.png)
We managed to defeat Ludicolo, but this matchup was longer than it should have been. If I used Rain Dance + Thunder from the beginning, TACTICA and SWIRLY wouldn't be heavily damaged now, and if at that specific turn I decided to use Swift instead of switching out VORTEX, I might have also been able to finish the match.
Fourth matchup: Lv.62 VORTEX vs Lv.56 GYARADOS. VORTEX was still suffering from Leech Seed, but I had to keep him out against Gyarados. This was a matchup that only VORTEX could deal with and he only needed one turn. The rain was still falling, so I went for Thunder. Even though it successfully killed Gyarados, VORTEX was down to 33 HP after Leech Seed (redzone) and he was still affected by Leech Seed and Intimidate, so I had to switch him out. It became questionable if he could fight again against any of Wallace's remaining pokémons.
(http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/41/130Gyarados.png/250px-130Gyarados.png)
Wallace's fifth pokémon was a Tentacruel. ANUBIS, TRIPLETRAP and TERAFUZE were both weak against Water while TACTICA and VORTEX were both low on health. This left me with SWIRLY as my best option. Fifth matchup: Lv.59 SWIRLY vs Lv.55 TENTACRUEL. Rain continued to fall, which enabled Wallace's Tentacruel to hit me with a boosted Hydro Pump. Ouch. I replied with a Surf, but it barely did any damage to him. At the end of the turn, at least the rain stopped. Next turn I remembered that Tentacruels have low Defense without using Barrier, so I went for Return. That was only after he used Sludge Bomb on SWIRLY though.
"SWIRLY was poisoned!"
You've gotta be kidding me, right? My most favourable matchup was looking really bad. After we exchanged attacks, he still had his HP in mid-orange, but I was down to the red AND I was also poisoned. To make things even worse, Tentacruel was faster than SWIRLY, so even if we decided to fight back, we would just die before we could even move. I had 2 options: sacrifice SWIRLY or switch in someone who has full health, but is weak to water. I obviously couldn't sacrifice anyone just yet, so I decided to switch in TRIPLETRAP.
Lv.58 TRIPLETRAP vs Lv.55 TENTACRUEL. It was a really risky move to switch, because this gave a free turn for them to use something against us that we're weak against. But luckily for us, Hydro Pump (wtf that would have been lethal, 1HKO) missed!
(https://snag.gy/bV4UYW.jpg)
The reason why I switched in TRIPLETRAP was because she knew Earthquake, which was supposedly super-effective against Tentacruel. I also hoped that we were faster than them, which was exactly the case (luckily). To my surprise, this small strategy was enough to take out Wallace's Tentacruel. Well done, TRIPLETRAP! :)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tga9WPJHxy8/TUjFNLQySeI/AAAAAAAAAuU/mW-qi3Z4ErQ/s1600/73Tentacruel.png)
Wallace was down to his last pokémon and we also managed to survive without any casualties so far. Wallace was about to send out MILOTIC, which was probably Champion Cynthia's most annoying pokémon in Diamond. With no other real options left, I decided to keep TRIPLETRAP in battle, land as many hits as possible and then switch to someone else before the last moment. Sixth matchup: Lv.58 TRIPLETRAP vs Lv.58 MILOTIC. Against a pure Water-type, I only had Ground, Dragon, Dark and Steel attacks, but I forgot which was not very effective against Water. I decided to go with Dragon Claw, but thinking back about it, I should have used Earthquake, because Dragon Claw barely did any damage. I was awaiting a counterattack after this, but none of us saw what was coming next...
"Foe MILOTIC used Ice Beam!"
WHAT?! :o No! Not the Ice Beam again! I expected a Water-type attack, which we could have probably survived, but I was not prepared for an Ice Beam at all. I guess it's no surprise to anyone that Ice Beam with its 4x super effectiveness killed TRIPLETRAP in one shot. :/ I was lacking options, so I had to send out someone weak again to just deal some damage and then withdraw.
"It's all up to you now, ANUBIS."
That's right, I had to send out ANUBIS next. ANUBIS had crazy high Attack power, so I decided to risk using his ultimate attack, Hyper Beam. This was the moment that I reserved that move for. It was all or nothing. Milotic was faster than us though, so he had a chance to land a super-effective Surf.
"INCOMING!"
Time slowed down as I watched ANUBIS' HP go down as we were hit by surf, but at the very last moment, the damage stopped and ANUBIS survived with 2 HP! After the miraculous survival, ANUBIS released all his power at Milotic! ...only to leave Milotic's HP in the redzone. And then Milotic's Sitrus Berry healed some HP too. I thought that it was all over, because ANUBIS now needed to recharge, but Wallace decided to use a Hyper Potion when Milotic was still in the orange, thus wasting his berry completely. ANUBIS survived the recharge time, but now Milotic had more HP than before, so this miraculous survival was all for nothing. :( We were in a very bad position, because it was inevitable to sacrifice someone on the following turns. If I kept in ANUBIS, he would have died because of low Speed, but if I switched in VORTEX, SWIRLY or TACTICA, they would have died too because of the extra turn we were giving to them. TERAFUZE still had full health, but his low Speed and Sp.Def made it sure that by the time we could even attack, Milotic would have already killed us with 2 Surfs, if not with only 1.
"Who should we sacrifice? I don't really want to sacrifice anyone, but I must."
It was kinda obvious that I had to sacrifice one of my Water-type pokémons, because I still had MENOS in the PC as a possible substitute. SWIRLY was unique with her Ice-type attacks, but stat-wise, TACTICA was more useful and she could also take more hits. I didn't like it, but I felt like it was SWIRLY's time to go. I sent out SWIRLY and expected an instant death, but Milotic decided to use Ice Beam, which barely even scatched her. I was getting hopeful that maybe SWIRLY could land one more hit before her death, but then the poison damage - that she was still having from the last matchup - was too much for her to handle. :(
(http://i.imgur.com/PQtVF3i.png) (http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/3/36/350Milotic.png/250px-350Milotic.png)
Now that we had a "fresh start" again (which only meant that we didn't need to worry about free, incoming attacks), I really wanted to just deal some damage to Milotic that sticks. For this, I brought out VORTEX, probably for the final time. VORTEX was carrying me so far, being the true MVP in my higher-tier battles and now he is here, facing the Champion's strongest pokémon. It was truly the only matchup which was worth for VORTEX's potential fainting. There was no time to set up Rain Dance, so I went straight for the Thunder. When Thunder managed to hit, I was relieved, but when it TURNED OUT TO BE A CRITICAL HIT, I WENT NUTS! VORTEX managed to kill the Champion's strongest pokémon in one hit, which had only 4% chance to happen! (70% chance for Thunder to land, 6,25% chance for critical hit, 4,375% chance combined) Even then, it might have been a lethal attack without a critical hit, but I'm glad that we didn't need to test it out. VORTEX is truly the real Champion here. :D
(http://orig01.deviantart.net/d8e5/f/2013/140/c/8/electrode_by_dburch01-d65ynz2.png)
After his defeat, Wallace had some things to say:
"The pokémon you sent into battle... At times they danced like a spring breeze, and at times they struck like lightning."
You're damn right we struck like lightning, all thanks to VORTEX. I don't know what you meant by the spring breeze part though, because I didn't even have any Grass-type attacks. This dialogue was probably scripted anyways, so let's move on to the next thing. :P Just before Wallace could announce Reynold as the new regional Champion, we had a nosy guest.
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"Go home May, you're drunk."
It's not what Wallace said, but it would have been hilarious if he said that. We also had a visit by Professor Birch, which led me to the question: How did these guys get in here?? Didn't May notice the Elite Four that was blocking the way here? Did May AND Professor Birch actually defeat the Elite Four? And now that they have defeated the Elite Four, do I have to fight them too as the new Champion? These kind of questions were circling in my head, but luckily Wallace interrupted them and told them to stay while he escorted Reynold to the next room.
Inside the next room was the Hall of Fame, where victorious pokémons were given the chance to free themselves from the Nuzlocke curse. There is one final rule that I never had the chance to implement, because I never actually got here:
"Any pokémon who survives a victorious battle against the League Champion for the first time wins 1 chance for a future revival. This doesn't affect pokémons in teams which already have Champion-winners."
Even without this, it was a real accomplishment to see my final team show up in the Hall of Fame. The final team included:
Fallen in action, but still honorable members of the Hall of Fame:
(https://snag.gy/jEgJHk.jpg) (https://snag.gy/R590jn.jpg)
Surviving members of the Hall of Fame, who earned 1 chance for revival:
(https://snag.gy/0iFIj5.jpg)
(https://snag.gy/r98Ahg.jpg)
(https://snag.gy/CH5s6z.jpg)
And the one and true Champion of this entire Nuzlocke run:
(https://snag.gy/CEWY3X.jpg)
Well done, team! Let's throw some confetti!
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(http://i.imgur.com/OEbbov4.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/PmhVHnT.png)
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That was wonderfully exciting. Are you going to do any post-game?
Hehe, i told you you needed to be that level to survive The Champion.
And you were certainly lucky, Milotic knows Recover. If Vortex had fainted you would have almost certainly wiped :/
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That was wonderfully exciting. Are you going to do any post-game?
Hehe, i told you you needed to be that level to survive The Champion.
And you were certainly lucky, Milotic knows Recover. If Vortex had fainted you would have almost certainly wiped :/
About post-game, I might go back to catch Rayquaza just for fun. I noticed that some new areas were unlocked too, so I might find someone there who would be worth mentioning here as a bonus. I'm gonna try rematching gym leaders too once it becomes an option. I don't really have any solid plans, but if there's something interesting that I'm missing, don't hesitate to tell me about it. ^^
You were totally right about the levels, so I'm glad that I went with them. ^^" When I battled Cynthia in Pokémon Diamond, her Milotic also gave me a hard time with Aqua Ring and Recover, so I was aware of the problem. Luck was on our side this time. ;)
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King VORTEX. Do I need to say more? That crit Thunder... winning a battle that you theoretically lost at that point.
Congratulations!
(Btw I really like Electrodes, so I could hardly be prouder of it.)