Re: OT: The Nuzlocke Challenge (Pokemon)
FireDancer's reign of fire has ended, to Twibz! After defeating Blaine and his fire-types, Drystan and FireDancer found Islands One, Two and Three, continued on their journey to Saffron City, routed out Team Rocket, beat the fighting mini-gym and Sabrina (by this time, FireDancer was almost level 80,) and Giovanni, the Viridian City gym leader.
FireDancer was level 81, using:
FlameThrower; Slash; Wing Attack and Metal Claw.
Moving on towards the Elite 4, Drystan ran into Twibz. Should be easy, right?
FireDancer vs Pidgeot (47.)
Thought I should've been able to one-hit KO it, I used Wing Attack, slivering the silly bird. It just barely scraped through an attack that "greatly reduced FireDancer's Attack stat."
Next came Blastoise, level 53 so I used Slash, hoping for it's high Crit Hit to trigger. I expected to take some damage, but nothing too concerning. Slash did hardly any damage, but made it through okay, without any concern.
Next, a level 45 Rhyhorn. Easy: I've got Metal Claw, a super effective move, but alas, that didn't come close to hitting for a kill. Rhyhorn then used the Rock/Ground attack that launches 2 to 5 rocks at the opponent. One hit. Two hit. Three hit. Four hit. Seriously? Five hit. Super-effective, just doing enough damage to kill FireDancer, my level 81 Charizard.
I came across some bad luck there. Pidgeot only barely surviving that first Wing Attack, and then using something to greatly reduce my attack stat. And from there, Charizard had a very noticable lack of power. Then the Rock Throw (? not sure which one,) landing five rocks! Ah well. I'll continue along solo, and finish it off. I'm close enough anyway.
I did absolutely humiliate one of Twibz's Pokemon though. FireDancer's Metal Claw only took Rhyhorn's health down to 50%, but I decided to keep going, try beat it with my low levels. Rhyhorn killed a few more, but eventually got KO'd.
Out came Exeggcute, Level 45, who did some more damage using Solar Beam, until SweetiePie, my level 3 Jigglypuff came out.
Exeggcute drew in light for Solar Beam
Jigglypuff used Sing
Jigglypuff used Flash x5
Jigglypuff kept putting Exeggcute to sleep, while using Strength and Dream Eater. I used all my X Attack/Accuracy modifiers, and slowly...
SweetiePie, level 3 Jigglypuff, KO'd a level 45 Exeggcute. Humiliation!
[highlight]My team upon deeds - Solo Charizard Run[/highlight]
FireDancer, level 81 Charizard
SonicWings, level 21 Zubat (in part used to capture some wild pokemon)
EarthShake, level 18 Diglet (Dig, Cut, Rock Smash)
SweetiePie, level 3 Jigglypuff (Flash, Strength)
SpeedyDove, level 15 Spearow (Fly)
Skadi, level 25 Vaporeon (Surf)
Other Captures
Stone Wind, level 5 Aerodactyl
LeafGrowth, level 25 Exeggcute
VineGrowth, level 19 Bellsprout
DarkSpirit, level 16 Ghastly
Ember Dash, level 34 Ponyta
NovaHunter, level 40 Persian
LiquidWave, level 25 Lapras
Deeds (using swapping Sonic Wave out during Doubles Battles)
Swift Foot, level 7 Mankey
Stone Claw, level 11 Sandshrew
SpiralWind, level 9 Pidgey
Sunset said:
Question: I had been using Zubat, but it hadn't yet evolved to Golbat. May I use this new Golbat I caught or should I let it go?
I feel that that's fine. As long as the Golbat still follows the rules (first wild encounter of an area, and not been caught before,) it seems fine.
If you want to add a slightly harder rule set for yourself, you can restrict yourself from using it, but that comes down to how many addition restrictions you want to place on yourself. I've seen a few comments where people add the further restriction of only 1 per evolution line, but it's just for a greater challenge.
[highlight]Drystan and FireDancer, level 81 - RIP to Rival Twibz, heading towards Victory Road[/highlight]
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