Challenge Nuzlocke Challenge

Doing my first Nuzlocke.

Rules:
Basic rules, let it die if it faints.
Catch 1st pokemon I see. No exceptions, no skipping if I make a mistake, and repeats count as well.
If I accept a gift pokemon, I cannot capture another pokemon in the area.
I am allowed to use items under any circumstance.
I am allowed to use the Pokemon Centers.
I am allowed to break any of the following rules above, minus USING a pokemon, given I find a shiny pokemon in the wild. Rules may be rules, but the rarest exception can go to my copy of Pokemon White.
Game can officially be considered "Won" after I defeat Ghetsis, but will not necessarily be over.

Past 1st gym, survivors:

Yuki the Modest Snivy Lv. 16.
Ruddy the Modest Patrat Lv. 14.
Tylian the Naughty Panpour Lv. 14.

Deaths:
Gruff the Patrat Lv. 4. (Poor thing didn't last a fight)

Alright, I continued with my Soul SilverNuzlocke adventure. The rules btw are:
- Release / Box fainted pokemon.
- Can only catch the first pokemon from a new route.
- Shinies are exceptions to the above rule.
- Unlimited items + pokecenters

My team at the moment:

Dead

Dead at level 6 iirc. Don't even know it's nickname.

and....

Boxed

Lvl 4 :naughty:

My First Nuzlocke

Ill be attempting to take the challenge. Since I have both black and white, ill just reset black and attempt it. I don't exactly know how/where to update my progress, how often to update, or where I should be posting this ... (This is my first post guys) but I do want to do the challenge and make up a cool story to go along with it. I'm no artist however, so I'll need to use sprites ... if someone could give me a link or site or something where I can borrow BW sprites to add to the story it could be greatly appreciated. .. um, if anyone has tips for this, I woulc gladly appreciate it, and thanks for reading :D

Gonna follow these rules:
1) If a Pokemon faints, it’s dead and can no longer be used in any capacity. Deposit it into a box marked “Dead” and never take it out. It can’t be used in battle, nor can it be used for HMs. Redos are NOT allowed; if a Pokemon faints, you can't simply retry the battle.

2) You can only catch the first Pokemon you run into in any route/area, and you only get one chance. If you accidentally faint it or run out of Pokeballs, then that’s too bad for you. What makes up an area is debatable at times; a good rule of thumb is that if a new location indicator pops up that is different from where you just were, it’s a new area.

3) You must nickname all of your Pokemon. These Pokemon are your lifelong friends, they will fight for you until they die! You must bond with them, and the first step to creating a bond is to nickname.

4) Item use: not at all during battle, Hold items allowed, can heal status ailments only once the battle is over, only buy poke balls (I hope this doesnt kill the spirit, i have an idea as to how to build a story around this)

5) Pokemon Center use: Unlimited use

6) Legendaries: Not allowed

7) Level limit. If necessary (Like for Emolga Gym Leader) I might need to batter my team till i'm sure I won't lose any friends ..

8) Gift Pokemon. Usually they simply count as the Pokemon you get for that area (Question: Does it mean for that city, or for like the next route?)

9) Switch and set: Set.

* All rules were of course copied from first post seen
Sorry for this being so long, and being that tomorrow is the last of my regents exams, I hope I will be able to have nice and fun to read stories for you all

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Welcome to Smogon!
You can update in this thread. That's what it's for, really. It doesn't matter how often you update, I haven't updated in what, a month? A good site to get sprites from is pldh.net (Sorry, no link). It has loads of sprites (Including animated ones) for every Pokemon (Though you could probably find some here on the site).
Also, regarding gift Pokemon, it means what it says. It means it counts as the Pokemon you got at that location, and you can't get another one there. For example, if you get Pansage/Pansear/Panpour in the Dreamyard, you couldn't get another Pokemon there as if the gift 'mon was the first Pokemon you encountered in the wild. You couldn't catch, say, a Munna there if it was the first Pokemon you found in the tall grass and you'd already gotten a Pansage. Simple as that.
I hope I answered your questions, and good luck on your Nuzlocke!
As a side note, I'm going to try to get that next update in today. I've been really busy lately...

My Nuzelocke failed at the E4 of HG!!

My final team:

Clair the Feraligatr
Bo Peep the Ampharos
Haxy the Togetic
Inky the Tentacruel
TreeNinja the Sudowoodo
Fang the Raticate

Haxed to death against Koga and 4 crits in a row against the next one :(
I have a Wobbafett, Farfetch'd, and a Hoppip in a box, but I think that that is a bad idea. I'll try again >_>

Update: Starting a new (rather quickly)

DarkMaelstrom said:

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Welcome to Smogon!
You can update in this thread. That's what it's for, really. It doesn't matter how often you update, I haven't updated in what, a month? A good site to get sprites from is pldh.net (Sorry, no link). It has loads of sprites (Including animated ones) for every Pokemon (Though you could probably find some here on the site).
Also, regarding gift Pokemon, it means what it says. It means it counts as the Pokemon you got at that location, and you can't get another one there. For example, if you get Pansage/Pansear/Panpour in the Dreamyard, you couldn't get another Pokemon there as if the gift 'mon was the first Pokemon you encountered in the wild. You couldn't catch, say, a Munna there if it was the first Pokemon you found in the tall grass and you'd already gotten a Pansage. Simple as that.

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^^ thank you very much :) With all that cleared, going to post my first, dissapointing update ...

My story ended rather abruptly, after my challenge with Gym Leader of Nacrene City… My friends fought very hard, down to their last breaths.. I went in with 4 friends, and came out with only Beady, the Dewott. Our partnership came to an end in Pinwheel forest, with the double battle of Seawaddles. Flipping Seawaddles. RIP :
Beady (Naughty Dewott) lvl 19
Fear (Lonely Patrat) Died in the double battle with Beady, lvl 8
Cutie (Impish Audino) level 12. Poor thing died as soon as I received her, against a Timburr. Chance later got revenge for all of team Airstrike.
Jumpy (Impish, Herdier) lvl 18. He fought in the battle against Nacrene’s Gym leader bravely, but sadly was killed by a lucky critical… He will always be loved.
Torch (Impish, Pansear) lvl 17
Chance (Relaxed, Woobat) lvl 17. There for Cutie when she died, a true hero. I still remember the first words he telecommunicated into my mind: This wasn’t by choice, it was by chance.

I've asked Celebii, the time traveller, to give me another chance. I will avenge my friends.. im sorry you guys, you will all be loved

( I've written some story about the adventure with them up till Pinwheel forest, waiting till I've fully completed a Nuzlocke to officially post anything though, so for now will do daily [or whenever I work on the game] updates )

Also, I've modified the Item use rule (sorry ... ) I can use the icky witchcraft healing juices on my pokemon only in dire emergency. When I say emergency, I mean if every single one of my pokemon are below 1/3 health in battle ( happened at Nacrene)

Well, I finally got back to playing SoulSilver yesterday, so I have an update there.
I got to Cianwood, only to find Suicune (!) and watch it run away. To no one's surprise, Eusine shows up, but this time he wants to battle me for Suicune's respect. I smash him quickly.
Soon, I, along with my newly evolved Crobat (Edward), do some more smashing at the Cianwood City Gym. I grind Edward up a level so he's as strong as Chuck's strongest 'mon. I then proceed to beat the crap out of Chuck's Primeape and emerge unscathed. Poliwrath was a bit more annoying with Hypnosis, but it missed half the time (And I still had Awakenings left over from my battle with Morty) and I eventually 3HKOed him with Wing Attack.
I flew back to Olivine, only to remember that I never got the SecretPotion. So I make a return trip, get the darn thing, and go back. Stupid Amphy.
Anyway, Jasmine returns to her Gym, blah blah blah, but I decide to do some grinding first. I always had troubles with her Steelix in the past because of its high level and Quilava's relatively weak moves. So I decided to level Blaster up to Lv. 35 so it could match Steelix's strength and learn Lava Plume.
After many battles against Raticates and Meowths, I remember that I never went to the Union Cave extension. So I go there and finish my grinding in the cave.
With my now-Lv. 35 Quilava, I decided to challenge Jasmine. Both her Magnemites were wiped away without a second thought. Steelix was KOed just as easily. And the whole match, Jasmine never landed a single blow. It was good for me, too, as the battle earned me enough EXP to get Blaster to Lv. 36 and evolve him into Typhlosion.
So that's that. Here's the team summary.
Blaster (Typhlosion) Lv. 36
Landslide (Golem) Lv. 29
Edward (Crobat) Lv. 32
Verminator (Heracross) Lv. 27
Egg 'em! (Exeggutor) Lv. 32
So, yeah. All I have to say about this team is...Exeggutor is a BOSS! Any foe I can't (For some crazy reason) take down, Egg 'em! is there. With a combo of Leech Seed/Sleep Powder, it can wear them down while hitting them hard with the highest attacking stat of my team. If your HGSS team needs a good Grass-type, go headbutt some trees. You might just get lucky and eggs will fall on your head. Who knows.
Focusing my training particularly on Blaster recently has left quite a level difference in my team. However, since Team Rocket is gonna go psycho pretty soon, I figure I can make up the level difference fairly easily. Also, I'm hoping to find a Seel on the way to the Safari Zone. I'm trying to decide whether Seel or the Red Gyarados would make a better partner for my team (You know, STAB Ice Beam could be incredibly useful against Lance and Clair, but Gyarados also learns Ice Fang, so...).
Sorry 'bout the long post, but oh, well. That's what happens when you don't update in a month.

Emerald Nuzlocke went horribly wrong so it is done. The only member left is my Combusken, and I have no routes left to catch Pokemon at this point. FML, game over =/

Sounds pretty cool :) Hey, how do you do the mini boxes? like, the ones that you used to describe in more detail your pokemon? ( If not sure for who, this message directed to DarkMaelstrom)

airhawk said:

Sounds pretty cool :) Hey, how do you do the mini boxes? like, the ones that you used to describe in more detail your pokemon? ( If not sure for who, this message directed to DarkMaelstrom)

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It's an option in the toolbar for an advanced post located furthest to the right--a box with a minus sign in it. Highlight the text you want hidden and click the box. The text should then be hidden when you post. If you want to check it to make sure you did it correctly, click 'preview post'. The text you highlighted should be in a 'mini box' like mine was in the preview. Hope I helped :)

Nuzlocke Challenge So Far

So far Team Airstrike (My team of pokemon and I) Have managed to defeat 4 gym leaders. Fluffy and Peace got my revenge against Lenora in a cute battle of growls, attracts, pounds and take downs ;) Beady (My dead Dewott of last trial), you can now rest in peace.. Since then, the team has only grown bigger and stronger. Rocky helped Fluffy take down Elesa's 2 Emolga's with Her Stealth Rocks attack, making that a clean win. I've lost 2 dear friends along the way though, but their memories won't be forgotten...


We Currently are in Driftveil City, preparing to take on the big bad Miner King

My Current Party

Nuzlocke Second Update

Team Airstrike has progressed quite far. We've made it all the way to Opelucid City's Gym Leader, Drayden. Hotty and Vengence have taken down all the trainers in the gym. All that's left now is the leader.

Other good news: No more members have died :) This also means that the amount of pokemon I have in the Computer is quite large. So for the mean while I'll only be giving my current party pokemon:
Team Airstrike
- Vengence the Lax Druddigon, level 44 Female
- Bull the Lonely Emboar, level 42 Male
- Hotty the Relaxed Chandelure, level 43 Female
- Woody the Bold Conkeldurr, level 41 Male
- Terror the Bold Gigalith, level 41 Female
- Kamika the Rash Swanna, level 43 Male

Nuzlocke Half-way Mark in Pokemon Black

Sorry for the immediate update, but this is of importance. Team Airstrike has succecfully conquered the pokemon league part 1. We lost a beloved member however, Woody, to a lame critical .. but happily added another, Sheer the Reshiram. Terror killed it once with a nice Stone Edge, to test whether it was evil or not. It came back to life in a more pure and good form, and demanded we catch it. SO that's how it came aboard.

Now for the rest of the challenge, Team Airhawk Will set off to kill the roaming Genie of misfortune, train to conquer the true Elite 4 along with Alder, and the mysterious Sinnoh Champion Cynthia. Again ill just post a Team update, the rest of the pokemon I've captured will be shown either at the total end of this challenge or in the comic / story I write.

Sorry for so many updates so close to each other, but I've been playing and completing this challenge rather quickly with my pokemon-friends.

Sheer the Relaxed Reshiram, level 51
Terror the Bold Gigalith, level 50 Female
Bull the Lonely Emboar, level 51 Male
Kamika the Rash Swanna, level 51 Male
Hotty the Relaxed Chandelure, level 52 Female

Got some slightly disappointing news from SoulSilver.
So I got to the Safari Zone successfully...to a point. Along the way I lost Verminator to an insane series of hax. It sucked, but oh, well. I did manage to get a Seel, however. Clappy the Seel. It certainly isn't anything to write home about, but it has Surf, so...yeah. It took a load of grinding too...
So I did that, and ventured to Mahogany Town. At the Lake of Rage, I sought for the Red Gyarados...
...but nothing happened!
Oh, really? MAGIKARP HAPPENED. What a beast.
Except not. I'm too lazy to train a Magikarp two levels, so I killed it along with its Shiny counterpart. CURSE YOU MAGIKARP!!!
So I joined Lance on a fantastic journey through a ninja hideout and laid it to waste. And good news: Clappy isn't complete crap now that it's evolved...but it still won't replace Verminator. (Now that I think about it, I should've named it Crappy)
In the end, I defeated evil for all time and brutally destroyed three Electrode.
Then I attacked an old man. This old man was no ordinary old man. This old man wielded an incredibly annoying Pokemon that almost killed my MVP. This Pokemon was known as Dewgong. But in the end, realizing it knew no Water moves, I wore it down with a Burn (Thank Arceus for Lava Plume and its high burn rate!).
And that's about it. I'm currently storming the Radio Tower, ruthlessly murdering Team Rocket's stolen Pokemon. Here's my team that I most certainly didn't steal (That would be against the rules):
Blaster (Typhlosion) Lv. 36
Landslide (Golem) Lv. 35
Edward (Crobat) Lv. 33
Egg 'em! (Exeggutor) Lv. 36
Clappy (Dewgong) Lv. 35
I'm really hoping I can find a Horsea in the Dragon's Den so I can replace Clappy quick. I'm thinking if I can get it Ice Beam it will serve me better against Lance than Clappy will. But I seriously need something to replace Verminator. If I don't, Karen's Umbreon will be a huge pain.

Started a nuzlocke on my White a little while ago, my team is:
Kenshi the lvl 46 Hasty Samurott(M)
Blade the lvl 43 Lonely Fraxure(M)
Juno the lvl 41 Gentle Unfezant(F)
Helios the lvl 41 Gentle Darmanitan(M)
Steve(Minecraft reference) the lvl 42 JOLLY Excadrill(M)
Shock the level 43 Docile Eelektrik(M)

Currently about to enter the Moor of Iccirus. I plan on grinding my team to level 48 before challenging Drayden, while evolving Shock in the process. Movesets to come once I get used to Smogon(soon).

Started a nuzlocke a few days ago on White 2. I'm trying to avoid spoilers, and I'm not using English patches. If I didn't look up level up moves, I'd probably do dumb things like replace Psybeam for Synchonoise because of the higher BP.

My rules are:

-Name everything
-Can only catch only the first Pokemon in the area
--Dupe Clause; I have 3 chances to find a different Pokemon. On the fourth attempt, I can catch the Pokemon even if I've caught one of its kind before.
--Shiny Pokemon ignore all rules
--If I catch a second Pokemon within a same area on accident (eg, it looks like a new area) I can keep it, but I'll feel bad about training it.
--Stationary and Gift Pokemon are exempt from catching rules, but I can get only one Gift or Stationary Pokemon per area.

Hey guys :) Small introduction.. I've been lurking around Smogon forums for years, occasionally playing some online but mostly just so I have something interesting to read when I've got time to kill. Recently found myself with lots of spare time so been having the urge to pick up one of the games, which I haven't touched in a couple of years. Quickly played through the end of my only incomplete cartridge (Heart gold), realised I couldn't be bothered grinding levels to defeat Red and so decided to start up a Nuzlocke..

And I'm loving it so far! Won't be doing anything fancy here but I felt the need to record what’s happening :) Mostly just my rather extensive thoughts.. this turned out a lot longer than I expected, but oh well!

I chose Fire Red for the nostalgia and thinking the familiarity would make things easier for my first Nuzlocke. Played through the original versions so many times as a kid, at least I'll know what to look out for!

Rules

• If it faints it's dead (boxed), no saves and re trying etc
• Can only catch first unique Pokemon on a route, no second chances.
• (Attempt) to nickname everything. I'm so used to cancelling this automatically that it's not going well.
• Unlimited PC use and any time item use but only those that I find. Only buying Pokeballs and repels
• No starter pokemon – I've used them all so many times it's just dull now, so thought I'd just box it.

The beginning..

Brock

Through Mt.Moon

Rival Battle

Misty

To Vermillion

Team

R.I.P

Oh, I forgot to mention, I've only experienced 1 death so far, and it was Gohan, my Pansear. He died while trying to catch Helios(Who knew NVE Fire Fang would do so much?). Luckily, I managed to catch Helios and use him to replace Gohan. To keep my Pokemon from dying, I just Audino grind. A lot.

Pokemon Engrish Emerald and Vietnamese Crystal

Well hey there guys, I figured I'd use up my first post by advertising not one but TWO video Nuzlocke runs I'm doing! So exciting amirite?! I hope videos are allowed here!

Anyway, here's episode 1 of both of them! Hope you guys enjoy, or at least don't despise completely and all that cool stuff. If you gots any criticisms, well, that's cool too I GUESS

Pokemon Engrish Emerald:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvVyQmllGH4

Yeah, that's right, didn't expect there to be an Engrish Emerald now did ya?! Well we randomly stumbled upon it and figured "hey les nuzlocke it cuz no onez ever done an emerald nuzlocke hehehehe". But hey, at least it's original in the sense that it's terribly translated?!

Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-8bbWiBQQ

Yeah, this game's been done before, but my friend, Doubletroubeify, wanted to do a terribly translated Pokemon game, and Zyrtec (the other guy Engrish Emerald) already took that one, so I was like "HEY WHY NOT". So ya, not much to say, so I'll stop saying things!

Both runs follow these rules:

Mandatory Rules:
1. If a Pokemon faints, you must release it as soon as possible.
2. If all your Pokemon faint, you must start over. But we're not gonna start over, we'll probably just give up and never do anything ever again.
3. You must nickname every Pokemon you catch.
4. You may only attempt to capture the first Pokemon you encounter in each area, route, cave, city, etc. If you don't catch it, tough shit.

Optional Rules:
1. You may not use any healing items (Revive, Antidotes, etc.)

Oh yeah and if you guys end up being interested in our runs (LOL YEAH OKAY), we also have finished nuzlocke runs of Engrish Green (lol too many terribly translated games ftw?) and this one really really really unfair hack, Pokemon Snakewood.

Thanks for your time and all that really appreciative stuff!

Nuzlocke Update: Team Airstrike is still in there

Hey guys, it's been a while but i felt after a couple weeks of intense training, it was time for another update. During the time I was able to meet some interesting new friends, and through rigourous dedication, blood sweat and tears my time is almost ready to continue its journey to conquer the evil of Pokemon Black.

I've lost a couple valuable, priceless members that have been with me through a lot .. ill post there bio's this time because i actually spent time playing with them lol.

I've also decided to catch the roaming genie. I can't kill the trio, because without Tornadus i can't reach Landorus. I'll capture him just so my team can reach and kill Landorus, then Tornadus and his counterpart will be " released " (traded over to my pokemon white).

With my team members, ill add notes as to explain a little bit what we went through, but other than that no story. I'll create a full story/comic once the challenge is fully won. So here's my team, and deceased-important members

Note: All team members were trained through the genocide of Audinos. After growing bored of killing them, we went to the Grand Chasm. Most of the members were trained by killing off the pokemon living there.

Team Airstrike​

Darkness [Female Gothitelle]
Rager [Male Gyarados]
Sheer [Reshiram]
Candy [Male Escavalier]
Bull [Male Emboar]
Hotty [Female Chandelure]

Deceased Members​

Whitney

yeah, ive always had a problem with whitney, all the other leaders are a breeze for me compared to her -.-

Episode 4 and 5 of Engrsh Emerald:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNPHz9Kb81g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytrnyOCS0DI

Episode 4 of Vietnamese Crystal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjmEIWFHp3U

Beginning an emerald nuzlocke, that I will hopefully find the time to complete... :3

Introducing.....

Dwayne
Nature: Brave.

So, went through and took care of all the Prof/May rubbish, (just between you and me, May totally wants it)
After receiving some balls, we ventured out onto Route 101, where a wild Poochyena appeared, Dwayne got a little excited with its scratch, damn crits. :@
So after that little misshap (and some stern words to Dwayne) we advanced to Route 103 annnnnnd.... another Poochyena appeared, and was quickly caught before Dwayne could screw things up again. :P


Eva
Nature: Careful.

So, with our new friend, we head out to Route 102, after collecting a potion from some bitch in Oldale, (who like May, was pleading for the shaft)
and a wild Wurmple appeared, and Dwayne kept it together, weakening it for the capture. :D


Anita
Nature: Bold.

So, currently... No Badges. duhhh.

THE TEAM

Dwayne - lv8
Nature: Brave
- Scratch
- Growl
- Focus Energy

Eva - lv7
Nature: Careful
- Tackle
- Howl

Anita - lv3
Nature: Bold
- Tackle
- String Shot

Trying a BW2 nuzlocke and it is fucking difficult.

I've almost failed twice now, and I'm currently in a re-building stage.

I have lost at least 4 pokemon to wild encounters, sandile to a wild sigilyph, solosis to a wild Liepard, that same Liepard to a wild Roserade.

I lost most of my team (level 29 swadloon, level 34 ducklett and level 41 boldore) to Achroma's Magneton in Driftveil.

At one point I was down to a 3 hp Boldore at level ~28, but managed to survive, train up, and then beat Elesa.

My current team is level 25 Zorua and a level 29 Joltik. I'll probably have to train up to evolution on both before I try the PWT again.

Continuing on..

So, after we watched Wally casually walk into the grass and encounter a Ralts, (which I've always wondered how he levels up considering Ralts' only known move at that level is Growl) we carry on to Route 104 where we get extremely lucky and dodge encountering another wurmple or poochyena, and BAM.

Monica
Nature: Lonely

We then moved onto Petalburg Woods, yet our high hopes of a Slakoth/Shroomish were quickly dashed when a Wurmple appeared, disappointed.

Todd
Nature: Relaxed

Levels were looking good as we entered Rustboro City, due to somevigorous grinding :P with the whole team at around lv12.

Route 116 proved another great training zone for the team, also adding a nincada to the team, but due to already having 2 bugs in the team, was immediately boxed.

Vincent
Nature: Timid

Rusturf Tunnel also provided us with a Whismur.

Marvin
Nature: Bashful

But we couldn't waste anymore time, the first badge had to be acquired, so as we entered the gym, Monica was raring to go, and before Roxanne had a chance to blink, her entire gym was flooded with Water Guns, earning us the Stone Badge. :D

THE TEAM

Dwayne - lv14
- Ember
- Scratch
- Growl
- Focus Energy


Monica - lv15
- Water Gun
- Tackle
- Rollout
- Defense Curl


Marvin - lv14
- Pound
- Uproar
- Astonish


Eva - lv14
- Bite
- Tackle
- Sand Attack
- Howl


Anita - lv14
- Gust
- Tackle
- Poison Sting
- Absorb


Todd - lv14
- Confusion
- Tackle
- Poison Sting
- Gust

BOXED
Vincent - lv6