XY PokéBeach Playthrough Discussion

[Athena]

Hello there! Welcome to the world of Pokémon Playthroughs! This thread is a place for people to learn about and discuss the various types of Playthroughs that members create and participate in on PokéBeach.

What is a Playthrough?​

A Playthrough is a thread where a user can document their adventures while playing through one of the many Pokémon games. Something of a cross between a journal and a story, the creator takes on the role of a trainer and shares their tale as they capture Pokémon, defeat other trainers, and eventually overthrow the evil team and beat the Pokémon League Champion. Often, they will follow a specific set of rules or challenges while they play the game, to make the story and the game more exciting and fun for them and their readers, and also to give those readers the opportunity to contribute or discuss.

Types of Playthroughs​

Although anyone playing through a game can make a playthrough with their own adventures, most commonly a playthrough author will have a theme to their story. Here is a selection of some of the most common:

Nuzlocke: The most common playthrough. Nuzlockes are runs designed to be more difficult than a standard playthrough and also to increase the bond between a trainer and his Pokémon. Although there are many ways to play a Nuzlocke and a large number of extra potential rules (mostly designed to increase the difficulty), the main two rules that define a Nuzlocke run are: 1) You may only catch the first Pokemon you encounter in each new area you explore, and 2) If one of your Pokemon faints, it is dead, and you must release (or permanently box) it. This type of playthrough originates from Pokémon Hard Mode, an ongoing comic run by the person to create the initial rule set. Some common additional rules can be found on The Nuzlocke Wiki or elsewhere on the web.

Choose My Team (CMT): CMT runs are playthroughs where the creator makes his team based on Pokémon chosen, and nicknamed, by the community. Because of the community involvement, readers enjoy seeing how the Pokémon they selected fare. Pokémon are often chosen based on strength (or lack thereof) or personal preference.

Mono-Type: A mono-type run is a playthrough where the creator uses only Pokémon of a certain type, as if they were a Gym leader. This adds an extra level of difficulty and strategy because you have to account for your types weaknesses and still build a good enough team to complete the game.

Wonderlocke: A variant of Nuzlocke that's new to 6th gen. Instead of using the first Pokémon encountered on a given route, the creator instead immediately uses Wonder Trade to trade the Pokémon they caught for a mystery Pokémon from the internet. Because of the randomness factor of Wonder Trades, Wonderlockes are a mixed blessing; will you get a team of legendaries and 5 IV starters, or a team of Lv. 3 Weedles? Okay, maybe the second is more likely, but still.

Have another type of Playthrough run that you'd like to see listed here? Feel free to share!

Current Playthroughs​

Want to follow a Playthrough that's currently running? Check out one of the linked threads here!

PokéBeach Platinum Run (CMT) - Keeper of Night
Team Rocket's Revenge - A Pokémon X Nuzlocke - Athena
James's Mission - A Pokémon Y Nuzlocke - Scorched Feathers

NOTE: Only active playthroughs will be listed in this section. In order for your playthrough to be considered "active", it must have been updated within the last 2 weeks. If you'd like to see your Playthrough listed here, just update it regularly!

Completed Playthroughs​

New playthrough runners may wish to look through old playthroughs for ideas and suggestions, or even just to read through some of the old stories. For your consideration, a selection of completed playthroughs is listed here for your convenience.

CMT of Pokémon Pearl Dolo - DNA
A White 2 Egg-Locke - Dialkia198
Sapphire Dice Nuzlocke (videos) - BenjaminLDuco
Red Nuzlocke - Delta
The Manliest Nuzlocke (Yellow) - PMJ
Crystal Nuzlocke - Professor Palutena
HeartGold Nuzlocke - Xdog
Sapphire Nuzlocke - Matryoshka

If you know of a completed PokéBeach playthrough that you would like to see listed, feel free to post a link!

Questions, Comments, and Discussion​

If you have any questions, a suggestion for a new type of run, looking to get advice on a playthrough of your own, or any other playthrough-related discussion, you're welcome to do so here. Playthroughs themselves should be posted in their own thread, but other discussion is welcome.

 

[Athena]

Since we've had a flurry of activity for Nuzlocke's starting up, I've updated the OP with the new ones and Reggie's since he's re-updating.

What do people think of the theme that I've inadvertently started a bandwagon of? Anyone else have any cool ideas for more Team Rocket runs?

Obviously, I think it's a cool idea myself, but then, I started it, so that makes sense. I never expected that it would inspire another run or anything, which is super cool. I think if people have fun with it, and if I enjoy my time with it too, I'll do a continuation of Jessie's adventures in Sinnoh when I get my copy of Platinum that I won from the Short Story Contest here.

 

[Chocolate Death]

Nuzlocke Challenge

Hey, sorry if I'm putting this in the wrong place, but I've been trying to figure out what game to do a nuzlocke comic of. W2, SS, Pt, or Y (as in XY not Yellow). I would have added OR to the list if I had a job or some way to get money, but since I don't...
Anyway, I would have asked in the chat room, but it keeps saying it's down, so... Yeah, I'm asking here instead.

Now, I don't care about gameplay or story since it's a comic, so I can tweak it however I want. Plus, gameplay doesnt matter if it's a comic.

 

[Athena]

I've been doing a WonderLocke in X and I think X/Y is a pretty nice game for this sort of challenge, especially if you give yourself the option of using the Exp. Share and/or Ami and/or Super Training, all of which can be useful to make a stronger team, especially if you get screwed with poor Pokémon or losing your strong ones. You also get 2 starters, free Lucario (with Mega Stone!), free Lapras, etc.

Otherwise, if none of those things matter to you, I'd suggest to pick whichever game is your favourite.

 

[Chocolate Death]

Well, I can't exactly do a WonderLocke for a comic, and those are my favorites. Actually, X I prefer more than Y because Xerneas and how I love deer and elk and gazelle and etc, but I think Yveltal would be cooler to draw battling.

Edit: Actually, I think I'll remove Y since you'll get better results from a baby flying a plane than me drawing Chesnaught, Delphox, or Greninja.

 

[Athena]

Well, I can't exactly do a WonderLocke for a comic...

Sure you could. It all depends on your narrative justification.

I wasn't actually suggesting that you do a WonderLocke, though, was just mentioning my own experience, since I'm doing one of those but haven't actually done a traditional Nuzlocke, though the base isn't all that different. The things that I mentioned apply just as much to a Nuzlocke, in fact, probably more so.

 

[Chocolate Death]

No, I mean, if I do a wonderlocke I wont be able to figure out how to explain me getting my army of level 1 pidgeys.But, anyway, I let a bunch of friends I know irl, as well as my cousin, choose for me and they all said SS because of how much I like Lugia and Groudon, as well as Ursaring and Skarmory. Funny how SS has more of my favorites than HG.

Edit: A friend brought up a good point just now. He said, I probably shouldn't do SS or HG since I play those games the most of all my games, alongside XY and DPPt. I need to leave gen 4 and 6 alone, I guess. So, he proposed I do nuzlockes of my least played, which are BW and B2W2. However, due to BW's lack of pokemon, it'd have to be BBVW. So, now I guess it's those and idk which to choose. Idk.. Uuuuugh why is his so hard for me ; - ;