The Nuzlocke Pokemon Challenge

[Mushroom 118i]

I'm on a Nuzlocke run on on Diamond. Quite enjoying it, which is good because if I wasn't, it would make the pain of not getting Black on launch a lot less bearable.

I would reccomend anyone who tries that to be prepared to lose men at the first gym. His final pokemon is level 14, which is higher than you would expect, and it knows pursuit, so say goodbye to being able to switch your 'mon out so they don't die.

Or maybe I just suck, with 3 deaths by the time I had beaten the gym leader. (note, one of the deaths wasn't the gym leader, my Zubat got CritHaxxed)

These are the rules I'm playing by:
Any Pokémon that faints is considered dead, and must be released.
The player may only catch the first Pokémon encountered in each area, and none else. If the first Pokémon encountered faints or flees, there are no second chances.
Adjusting the first encounter rule to ban duplicate captures. (Can capture next encountered ?mon. This also rules out recapturing anything good you might have lost, but on a different route.)
All Pokémon must be nicknamed
Considering a black out/white out to be ?game over,? even if there are Pokémon left in the PC.

 

[Tiswas]

I must admit. I'm half tempted to try another on Black tomorrow. I aint really followed much of the new pokes so it'll be a nice surprise. Considering on the older ones I know to be wary of Geodude/Koffing/Voltorb lines since they have self-destruct.

Instead on this one it'll be all.

Me: Awwww look at the cute Season Reindeer! I'll name him Chopper when I catch him!

Season Reindeer used Self-Destruct!

 

[Zannah]

Right well maybe not Black/White then. I suppose all the game have their BS moments. I always hated the second gym in R/S/E. Still it is a nice idea and doesn't have to be B/W.

That's the fight-arena, isn't it?

On an other note - how does seemingly everyone manage to level all six mons along at the same time? Wouldn't just grinding be... you know tedious as hell?

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Right well maybe not Black/White then. I suppose all the game have their BS moments. I always hated the second gym in R/S/E. Still it is a nice idea and doesn't have to be B/W.

That's the fight-arena, isn't it?

On an other note - how does seemingly everyone manage to level all six mons along at the same time? Wouldn't just grinding be... you know tedious as hell?

Well what I ususally do is just raise pokemon up 5 levels then switch them to the back. I ususally end with a team of all about level 45ish maybe 50 by the Elite 4 without too much grinding just fighting all trainers on the way there. Also my team are hand picked to destroy the Elite Four so that helps cut out grinding. For ages I didn't know Fighting>Ice tpye. Lots of fun after knowing that. Also yes that is the fighting gym. They are fairly high leveled and all have really high defense and Karate Chop with high crit. The only pokemon you can have is a Wingul really help and they aren't that great at that level. Although you could grind an Abra.

 

[Zannah]

Well what I ususally do is just raise pokemon up 5 levels then switch them to the back. I ususally end with a team of all about level 45ish maybe 50 by the Elite 4 without too much grinding just fighting all trainers on the way there. Also my team are hand picked to destroy the Elite Four so that helps cut out grinding. For ages I didn't know Fighting>Ice tpye. Lots of fun after knowing that. Also yes that is the fighting gym. They are fairly high leveled and all have really high defense and Karate Chop with high crit. The only pokemon you can have is a Wingul really help and they aren't that great at that level. Although you could grind an Abra.

Combusken used peck. It's super effective.

Which is probably a good example of what I mean - focussing on two mons you like, and lvling nothing else,except for maybe catching something high level on victory road, or a legendary, will leave you *way* ahead of everything you encounter, to the point where you can pretty much disregard effectiveness.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well what I ususally do is just raise pokemon up 5 levels then switch them to the back. I ususally end with a team of all about level 45ish maybe 50 by the Elite 4 without too much grinding just fighting all trainers on the way there. Also my team are hand picked to destroy the Elite Four so that helps cut out grinding. For ages I didn't know Fighting>Ice tpye. Lots of fun after knowing that. Also yes that is the fighting gym. They are fairly high leveled and all have really high defense and Karate Chop with high crit. The only pokemon you can have is a Wingul really help and they aren't that great at that level. Although you could grind an Abra.

Combusken used peck. It's super effective.

Which is probably a good example of what I mean - focussing on two mons you like, and lvling nothing else,except for maybe catching something high level on victory road, or a legendary, will leave you *way* ahead of everything you encounter, to the point where you can pretty much disregard effectiveness.

Ye it does but as I said they do have very high defense and attack due to bulk so why it is possible it is just irritating. Anyway different people do it different ways. I have done it that way before but I have found I just like the rounded party way a bit better suited to my style.

 

[geldonyetich]

Good to know emos have found a way to enjoy Pokemon too.

 

[LordPsychodin]

Even though I own 4 generation IV games (Heartgold, platinum, diamond, pearl) I honestly wouldn't ever consider doing this, and between HG and platinum I have 1500 hours playtime. All it amounts to is getting your starter pokemon, finding a good xp area, and grinding the hell out of it. I remember when I first played pokemon Red version, because I chose charmander and saw thanks to the little nintendo power book that the first gym would be a poor choice without more power, raised charmander in viridian forest high enough to learn flamethrower, then let it evolve to charizard (level 45). It was almost level 80 by the time I hit the elite 4.

The *only* thing this entire little game experiment seems to amount to as far as I can see, is to see how much of a masochist you are towards grinding and how many times you like to visit a pokemon center; When honestly doing the battle frontier for the 10th time probably *is* more entertaining, or swapping friend codes and raising teams to battle friends. (I've EV trained ever single uber tier and OU tier pokemon with dual 31 IVs from breeding for choice stats and moves, and raised them all to level 100 across those 1500 hours)

 

[Tiswas]

Even though I own 4 generation IV games (Heartgold, platinum, diamond, pearl) I honestly wouldn't ever consider doing this, and between HG and platinum I have 1500 hours playtime. All it amounts to is getting your starter pokemon, finding a good xp area, and grinding the hell out of it. I remember when I first played pokemon Red version, because I chose charmander and saw thanks to the little nintendo power book that the first gym would be a poor choice without more power, raised charmander in viridian forest high enough to learn flamethrower, then let it evolve to charizard (level 45). It was almost level 80 by the time I hit the elite 4.

The *only* thing this entire little game experiment seems to amount to as far as I can see, is to see how much of a masochist you are towards grinding and how many times you like to visit a pokemon center; When honestly doing the battle frontier for the 10th time probably *is* more entertaining, or swapping friend codes and raising teams to battle friends. (I've EV trained ever single uber tier and OU tier pokemon with dual 31 IVs from breeding for choice stats and moves, and raised them all to level 100 across those 1500 hours)

Not true. It also forces you into using pokemon you wouldn't normally. I know for a fact that it's almost impossible to beat Red with a single level 100.

It's just a different way to play the game is all.

 

[LordPsychodin]

I'd just like to add there's nothing special about using a rattata over a Tyranitar. There's no badge of honor for using a poorly designed 'mon. I do understand it's supposed to be a different way to play the game, however, that I will never debate on. I was just trying to point out much like the classic three hearts zelda challenge, it's a little silly to play a game in a way that would cause more frustration due to design flaw because of player choice/"rules"