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Another nuzlocke...Because that's all anyone ever does in this forum.
But hey, I'm the only one to dare to do one in Yellow (aka the playthrough where I better hope I get Mankey or I am screwed AM I RIGHT), and that's what makes this the manliest nuzlocke (especially if I don't get Mankey).
THE RULES AND JUNK
1. anyone who dies is dead (considering killing Pikachu on purpose to get him to stop following me because he's TREMENDOUSLY ANNOYING, opinions?), considering just boxing them in case I need an HM slave but are still forbidden from battle
2. only the first pokemon encountered on a route is eligible for capture, all others are SHUNNNNNNED (and summarily killed and used for sustenance)
3. Battle style set (because I am a real man who is not afraid of death)
4. legendaries is forbidden because come on that's just plain silly
5. black out = gg
6. running into a pokemon I have already captured does not count towards the 1-poke rule, because having a team of like 5 pidgeots is extremely dumb
7. Master ball = to be junked immediately
Not sure if there are any other rules I should follow. I know the top two are standard fare for all challenges. I'm up for suggestions because this is, after all, supposed to be the manliest nuzlocke ever.
Since storifying is what you guys do I guess (?), I'll be chronicling my no-doubt-hilarious adventures in this thread.
Since I'm doing a Nuzlocke of Yellow (and I can't play it on a DSi XL), I'm using my royal purple Game Boy Color for this challenge. I am pretty sure now that this is the manliest I could possibly get with this challenge (I don't own a regular Game Boy and not sure if Yellow can be played on it in any case). Everything else will be revealed in the "story", so without further ado, PMJ Productions proudly presents:
The Manliest Nuzlocke
Chapter One: Gary
Chapter Two: Yes I Mad
Chapter Three: Phenomenal Cosmic Powers
Chapter Four: Mt. Moon
Chapter Five: ...welp.
Chapter Six: MASS MURDER
Chapter Seven: Rock Tunnel? More Like Co*shot*
Chapter Eight: And Then There Were Four...Again
Chapter Nine: Going On a Diet
Chapter 10: Oh Wait, This Is Yellow
Chapter Eleven: The Art of Lovemaking
The word monster has begun to eat my posts. Find the remainder of this story here.
But hey, I'm the only one to dare to do one in Yellow (aka the playthrough where I better hope I get Mankey or I am screwed AM I RIGHT), and that's what makes this the manliest nuzlocke (especially if I don't get Mankey).
THE RULES AND JUNK
1. anyone who dies is dead (considering killing Pikachu on purpose to get him to stop following me because he's TREMENDOUSLY ANNOYING, opinions?), considering just boxing them in case I need an HM slave but are still forbidden from battle
2. only the first pokemon encountered on a route is eligible for capture, all others are SHUNNNNNNED (and summarily killed and used for sustenance)
3. Battle style set (because I am a real man who is not afraid of death)
4. legendaries is forbidden because come on that's just plain silly
5. black out = gg
6. running into a pokemon I have already captured does not count towards the 1-poke rule, because having a team of like 5 pidgeots is extremely dumb
7. Master ball = to be junked immediately
Not sure if there are any other rules I should follow. I know the top two are standard fare for all challenges. I'm up for suggestions because this is, after all, supposed to be the manliest nuzlocke ever.
Since storifying is what you guys do I guess (?), I'll be chronicling my no-doubt-hilarious adventures in this thread.
Since I'm doing a Nuzlocke of Yellow (and I can't play it on a DSi XL), I'm using my royal purple Game Boy Color for this challenge. I am pretty sure now that this is the manliest I could possibly get with this challenge (I don't own a regular Game Boy and not sure if Yellow can be played on it in any case). Everything else will be revealed in the "story", so without further ado, PMJ Productions proudly presents:
The Manliest Nuzlocke
Chapter One: Gary
The game begins with Pikachu and his smiling dopey face on the screen. I try to time my push of Start so it happens when his eyes are fully closed. I do it on the first try, because I am awesome like that. I waste no time in hitting NEW GAME because I have a feeling I am gonna be coming back here within the next few hours.
Oak appears to me from the void and requests my name: Red. It is Red because I am Red. It is also symbolic at my coming rage. If I can just get past the first gym...
Following that, the senile old man asks me his grandson's name. There is only one choice.
Gary.
He is the one and only rival, a worthy target of my hatred.
My game begins and I head straight for the PC. I activate it and sit through the painfully slow text. Taking what will definitely prove to be a life-saving Potion, I access the menu and make the proper changes. I save for the first time in what I hope is my only necessary attempt at this challenge. Without saying a word to my mom, I leave my house and--because Red has no fear--walk straight into the tall grass.
ALL OF A SUDDEN: PROFESSOR OAK.
He tries to warn me, but it doesn't matter. A Pikachu jumps us (him) out of nowhere. Oak is all like "I got dis" and chucks his one and only Poke Ball while the Pikachu's at full life. Doesn't even send a Pokemon out. One, two, three shakes and it's caught like nothing. Oak is such a boss.
He drags me to his lab where I see...him. Gary. He starts to cry (business as usual for a chump like him) and Oak nearly pimp slaps him. Oak offers me the Pokemon on the table but I know what's coming. Gary sucker punches me like a loser and steals the rare Pokemon off the table. Oak decides it's best to rest his pimp hand and chuck the stupid Pikachu at me. Now I'm stuck with it.
As is customary in nuzlocke challenges, all my Pokemon will be nicknamed. I figure I might as well do beach members, except members most of you probably ain't never heard of, which is fine. (not always)
I nicknamed my Pikachu Takeshi, which I figure is the perfect nickname because she is always around, even if you might not want her to be, and there's no getting rid of her (well there was, she's pretty much gone now). Plus she likes Raichu so... trololol I'm playing Yellow
It's now that I'm realizing that there's a real chance I could lose this fight, forcing me to start ALL OVER AGAIN. I want Takeshi to live and it's the first time I've ever truly cared about my Pokemon's survival. I don't even bother saving as I attempt to leave.
VS GARY
I have the advantage in Speed so I will always go first. Thundershock does a fair amount, considering. Gary counters with Tackle for an equal amount. I remember the Potion I have as I Thundershock again. Critical hit. Gary freaks and tries a Tail Whip but whiffs, and another crit shock seals the deal. Takeshi gets a crapton of exp and levels up and learns Tail Whip. Still useless. I gotta pray for this Mankey.
Stepping outside Oak's lab, I look out upon Route 1 and realize that I am royally screwed. I have to capture the first Pokemon I see, but I can't because I have no Poke Balls, which means I'm gonna have to do this route with just Pikachu. Considering it's just Pidgey and Rattata, that's not so bad. Long as I get me a Mankey on Route Whatever.
Of course, this wouldn't be the manliest nuzlocke without some trolling, and that's exactly what the game does. On my way to Viridian City, I ran into exactly one Pokemon (a Pidgey, who trolled me by living Thundershock with 1 HP). fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuu
I get Oak's Thing and head back to Pallet Town, again running into exactly 1 Pokemon (another Pidgey who lived with 1 HP).
I realize now I get no free Poke Balls in this game and, with a heavy heart and half dead, run to Viridian City. One Pokemon. Pidgey. L3 so it was ohkoed, wahahahaha.
I get healed and buy my poke balls.
Just kidding. I stare into space and fall asleep at the counter while the clerk looks on in wonder.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L6
Oak appears to me from the void and requests my name: Red. It is Red because I am Red. It is also symbolic at my coming rage. If I can just get past the first gym...
Following that, the senile old man asks me his grandson's name. There is only one choice.
Gary.
He is the one and only rival, a worthy target of my hatred.
My game begins and I head straight for the PC. I activate it and sit through the painfully slow text. Taking what will definitely prove to be a life-saving Potion, I access the menu and make the proper changes. I save for the first time in what I hope is my only necessary attempt at this challenge. Without saying a word to my mom, I leave my house and--because Red has no fear--walk straight into the tall grass.
ALL OF A SUDDEN: PROFESSOR OAK.
He tries to warn me, but it doesn't matter. A Pikachu jumps us (him) out of nowhere. Oak is all like "I got dis" and chucks his one and only Poke Ball while the Pikachu's at full life. Doesn't even send a Pokemon out. One, two, three shakes and it's caught like nothing. Oak is such a boss.
He drags me to his lab where I see...him. Gary. He starts to cry (business as usual for a chump like him) and Oak nearly pimp slaps him. Oak offers me the Pokemon on the table but I know what's coming. Gary sucker punches me like a loser and steals the rare Pokemon off the table. Oak decides it's best to rest his pimp hand and chuck the stupid Pikachu at me. Now I'm stuck with it.
As is customary in nuzlocke challenges, all my Pokemon will be nicknamed. I figure I might as well do beach members, except members most of you probably ain't never heard of, which is fine. (not always)
I nicknamed my Pikachu Takeshi, which I figure is the perfect nickname because she is always around, even if you might not want her to be, and there's no getting rid of her (well there was, she's pretty much gone now). Plus she likes Raichu so... trololol I'm playing Yellow
It's now that I'm realizing that there's a real chance I could lose this fight, forcing me to start ALL OVER AGAIN. I want Takeshi to live and it's the first time I've ever truly cared about my Pokemon's survival. I don't even bother saving as I attempt to leave.
VS GARY
I have the advantage in Speed so I will always go first. Thundershock does a fair amount, considering. Gary counters with Tackle for an equal amount. I remember the Potion I have as I Thundershock again. Critical hit. Gary freaks and tries a Tail Whip but whiffs, and another crit shock seals the deal. Takeshi gets a crapton of exp and levels up and learns Tail Whip. Still useless. I gotta pray for this Mankey.
Stepping outside Oak's lab, I look out upon Route 1 and realize that I am royally screwed. I have to capture the first Pokemon I see, but I can't because I have no Poke Balls, which means I'm gonna have to do this route with just Pikachu. Considering it's just Pidgey and Rattata, that's not so bad. Long as I get me a Mankey on Route Whatever.
Of course, this wouldn't be the manliest nuzlocke without some trolling, and that's exactly what the game does. On my way to Viridian City, I ran into exactly one Pokemon (a Pidgey, who trolled me by living Thundershock with 1 HP). fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuu
I get Oak's Thing and head back to Pallet Town, again running into exactly 1 Pokemon (another Pidgey who lived with 1 HP).
I realize now I get no free Poke Balls in this game and, with a heavy heart and half dead, run to Viridian City. One Pokemon. Pidgey. L3 so it was ohkoed, wahahahaha.
I get healed and buy my poke balls.
Just kidding. I stare into space and fall asleep at the counter while the clerk looks on in wonder.
THE TEAM SO FAR
When I awaken, I realize there is a long line of angry customers. I finally make my purchase and leave. I head out to Route Whatever in the hopes that I am lucky enough to find a Mankey so this challenge is just a smidge easier. Well, the stars were in alignment for me, because what I ran into blew away all my expectations:
trolololol >:[
I named him Fudge literally because I can't nickname him a certain other four-letter word that starts with F and rhymes with BUCK and still talk about him on pb. I tell myself that this is to be expected in the manliest nuzlocke but I can't help but think that someone out there hates me. Little did I know what was to come...
I try to think of the good in this. I have a flier now without needing a slave, and Fearow's badass. Drill Peck is hot. He was level six when I got him, so he's already caught up to Takeshi. The next mon I run into--a level 2 NidoranM--is promptly executed for the crime of being the second Pokemon I encountered. I run into his identical brother a few moments later, and Takeshi likewise devours his soul. I decide I might as well get this wagon train a-movin' and leave Viridian City due north to what I think is Route 2. I have no hopes for this route since it's just Pidgey and Rattata. I might get lucky and find something REALLY COOL, right?
LOL NOPE
I end up killing it before I can catch it, which made me quite upset since I would be absolutely enthralled to have more death fodder for the fight against He Who Shall Not Be Named. I feel like this whole challenge is about getting past that first gym. I shrug off my loss and head into Viridian Forest. I approach a girl from behind and make conversation and she's like DO YOU HAVE A PIKACHU? even though I have one FOLLOWING ME YOU STUPID GIRL and she attacks me with her Nido-brigade. Takeshi annihilates them. I still haven't run into anything and I know this place is still full of bugs but I've gotta do something if I'm gonna get a badge and not the game over screen. As I run into my first encounter I close my eyes in anticipation. Please let it be useful, please let it be useful, PLEASE LET IT BE USEFUL:
- u mad bro?
I see it and my game plan forms in my head. Grind like no one has ever ground before. Butterfree will be so high in level that Confusion will OHKO both his guys and I am free as a bird. Takeshi stares down the dopey thing and fires off a warning volley of Thundershock. It hardens. I realize that Thundershock is a 2hko. I switch to Fudge as he gets harder. I peck because that's all I can do. At +2 he can easily s--
Critical hit!
...get critted, robbing me of the last chance I had at beating Brock without absolutely insane amounts of grinding.
Why me?
I head towards the end of Viridian Forest, murdering things. All is well. I get to the end and remember that bug catcher's got some pretty tough pokes, I better go back and heal just to be safe. So I do. Then I go back and slaughter the toughest Pokemon in history: a L10 Caterpie (more like Crit-erpie, geez these guys crit a lot). I feel like a loser and heal up at Pewter City. I head back to the north end of Route 2 (oh yeah, that other route is route 22) and start what is sure to be several hours of grinding. First thing I run into is NidoranF and I'm thinking, what? Really? I'm still on Route 2, right? ...Right? Am I getting trolled again? I don't know if this is technically part of Route 2, so I capture it pending an investigation once I'm back at school and I have internet access. I nicknamed it Celestia, because Celestia is a troll. As it turns out I really was on Route 2 still, and the encounters I had pre-Viridian Forest were just all Pidgey and Rattata out of spite. Because it's still Route 2, I have no choice to release Nidoran, still badly injured from our encounter, into the wild without ever having seen a single battle under my command.
So I'm killin' stuff and I'm like god this is slow I'mma go back and stomp on Gary, so that's what I do, killin' more stuff on the journey. I see Gary has a Spearow just like me except mine's three levels higher. I've decided to attack Brock with only Pikachu since he's not weak to Rock. Also, this battle might not be as hard as I'm expecting it to be since both his guys know Bide and it has no priority in Yellow, which means my Quick Attacks will hit before he uses them. Gary's Spearow goes down to a couple of Thundershocks and Eevee struggles to do anything useful while he is 4hkoed.
Back outside of Pewter City, I am grinding more. I decide to see just what I can do against the Jr. Trainer, I remember he has a Sandshrew or something so it should be a decent match. I head to the gym and I see he has two Pokemon, which gives me pause. A Diglett is first, level nine. It is promptly 2hkoed by Quick Attack. Next comes the Sandshrew I expected, and while I know it doesn't have any Ground moves (are Dig and Earthquake the only ones in gen 1?), I need to be careful because if Takeshi gets killed here my challenge is over. I use Quick Attack and Sandshrew brushes it off like it was nothing. I get Scratched for pittance. After two more repeat performances I realize that even with a five-level advantage, Quick Attack is like a 6hko. I need to conserve all my potions for the fight against Brock and Takeshi is in the yellow so rather than risk a crit here I head to Fudge to finish him off with two Pecks.
Fighting this battle made me realize how unprepared I still am. I will need to get Takeshi at least to level 17 or 18 if I'm going to stand any chance at withstanding Brock's attacks.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L14
Fudge L12
I named him Fudge literally because I can't nickname him a certain other four-letter word that starts with F and rhymes with BUCK and still talk about him on pb. I tell myself that this is to be expected in the manliest nuzlocke but I can't help but think that someone out there hates me. Little did I know what was to come...
I try to think of the good in this. I have a flier now without needing a slave, and Fearow's badass. Drill Peck is hot. He was level six when I got him, so he's already caught up to Takeshi. The next mon I run into--a level 2 NidoranM--is promptly executed for the crime of being the second Pokemon I encountered. I run into his identical brother a few moments later, and Takeshi likewise devours his soul. I decide I might as well get this wagon train a-movin' and leave Viridian City due north to what I think is Route 2. I have no hopes for this route since it's just Pidgey and Rattata. I might get lucky and find something REALLY COOL, right?
LOL NOPE
I end up killing it before I can catch it, which made me quite upset since I would be absolutely enthralled to have more death fodder for the fight against He Who Shall Not Be Named. I feel like this whole challenge is about getting past that first gym. I shrug off my loss and head into Viridian Forest. I approach a girl from behind and make conversation and she's like DO YOU HAVE A PIKACHU? even though I have one FOLLOWING ME YOU STUPID GIRL and she attacks me with her Nido-brigade. Takeshi annihilates them. I still haven't run into anything and I know this place is still full of bugs but I've gotta do something if I'm gonna get a badge and not the game over screen. As I run into my first encounter I close my eyes in anticipation. Please let it be useful, please let it be useful, PLEASE LET IT BE USEFUL:
I see it and my game plan forms in my head. Grind like no one has ever ground before. Butterfree will be so high in level that Confusion will OHKO both his guys and I am free as a bird. Takeshi stares down the dopey thing and fires off a warning volley of Thundershock. It hardens. I realize that Thundershock is a 2hko. I switch to Fudge as he gets harder. I peck because that's all I can do. At +2 he can easily s--
Critical hit!
...get critted, robbing me of the last chance I had at beating Brock without absolutely insane amounts of grinding.
Why me?
I head towards the end of Viridian Forest, murdering things. All is well. I get to the end and remember that bug catcher's got some pretty tough pokes, I better go back and heal just to be safe. So I do. Then I go back and slaughter the toughest Pokemon in history: a L10 Caterpie (more like Crit-erpie, geez these guys crit a lot). I feel like a loser and heal up at Pewter City. I head back to the north end of Route 2 (oh yeah, that other route is route 22) and start what is sure to be several hours of grinding. First thing I run into is NidoranF and I'm thinking, what? Really? I'm still on Route 2, right? ...Right? Am I getting trolled again? I don't know if this is technically part of Route 2, so I capture it pending an investigation once I'm back at school and I have internet access. I nicknamed it Celestia, because Celestia is a troll. As it turns out I really was on Route 2 still, and the encounters I had pre-Viridian Forest were just all Pidgey and Rattata out of spite. Because it's still Route 2, I have no choice to release Nidoran, still badly injured from our encounter, into the wild without ever having seen a single battle under my command.
So I'm killin' stuff and I'm like god this is slow I'mma go back and stomp on Gary, so that's what I do, killin' more stuff on the journey. I see Gary has a Spearow just like me except mine's three levels higher. I've decided to attack Brock with only Pikachu since he's not weak to Rock. Also, this battle might not be as hard as I'm expecting it to be since both his guys know Bide and it has no priority in Yellow, which means my Quick Attacks will hit before he uses them. Gary's Spearow goes down to a couple of Thundershocks and Eevee struggles to do anything useful while he is 4hkoed.
Back outside of Pewter City, I am grinding more. I decide to see just what I can do against the Jr. Trainer, I remember he has a Sandshrew or something so it should be a decent match. I head to the gym and I see he has two Pokemon, which gives me pause. A Diglett is first, level nine. It is promptly 2hkoed by Quick Attack. Next comes the Sandshrew I expected, and while I know it doesn't have any Ground moves (are Dig and Earthquake the only ones in gen 1?), I need to be careful because if Takeshi gets killed here my challenge is over. I use Quick Attack and Sandshrew brushes it off like it was nothing. I get Scratched for pittance. After two more repeat performances I realize that even with a five-level advantage, Quick Attack is like a 6hko. I need to conserve all my potions for the fight against Brock and Takeshi is in the yellow so rather than risk a crit here I head to Fudge to finish him off with two Pecks.
Fighting this battle made me realize how unprepared I still am. I will need to get Takeshi at least to level 17 or 18 if I'm going to stand any chance at withstanding Brock's attacks.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Grinding, grinding, grinding. After Takeshi gets to level 17 I decide that since I have a little advantage I should not get slaughtered at the Gym. I heal up and spend all 3k I have on pots, anticipating a brawl of epic proportions.
I don't bother saving. It's now or never. Do or die. GO TAKESHIIIIIIIIIII
VS BROCK
Geodude is up first and he's level...10? Oh my god they're not the same level, this is Yellow. I feel a bit silly now because I have a seven-level advantage, but I'm not gonna let the power difference go to my head. I start the Tail Whips as he comes out swinging...well, tackling. After three I test the waters with Quick Attack, and it does about a fourth. At this point the Tackles are starting to get to me so I heal up and start Growling. He crits me for like 5 or 6 damage which is very promising. I don't want Brock to heal him up so I QA once more, follow it up with a couple of Tail Whips, and QA for the KO.
When I see that Onix is level 12 and not 15 like he is in Blue, I figure I got this game bagged. I start the Tail Whips and he starts Tackling me. He doesn't actually use Bide for the first few turns but when he does it's all good in the hood since that gives me a few free turns to debuff him. After a few Tail Whips I use Quick Attack to see how I'm doing.
It does like 4 damage. It was also a critical hit.
And I was like daaaaaaaaaaang Onix you and your over nine thousand Defense. I continue debuffing while he struggles to kill me. One time after Bide I was stupid and did QA on the turn he unleashed, he hit me for 3/4 of my life and it was like wheewwwwww. I thought I had this match completely won until he started using Screech, which scared me because he was slowly undoing all my Growling and if he crits me I am gonna cry. I had no choice here but to use Fudge to reset the counter. Since he had no Rock moves I was free to Peck him to death, getting me past the first part of this manly challenge.
Bide is such a dumb move.
I heal up and head out to Route 3, killing trainers. I get to the tall grass and I am excited to see what is in store for me now that I have a new opportunity to catch something new. Oh boy, what could it beeeeeee?
herp
...No. I slaughter it, only to run into THREE MORE. Finally, I run into something different:
Sweeeeeet. (Not really, but I heart me some Raper Fang) I name her Betsy, because I figure that is a cool name for a rat. Also, she's a girl because creative license.
So I heal it up and fight a couple battles, nearly get killed, and that's where I'm at. Next stop: Mt. Moon and of course I'm going to run into a Zubat first because there are 80000000000 of them.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L17
Fudge L15
Betsy L10
I don't bother saving. It's now or never. Do or die. GO TAKESHIIIIIIIIIII
VS BROCK
Geodude is up first and he's level...10? Oh my god they're not the same level, this is Yellow. I feel a bit silly now because I have a seven-level advantage, but I'm not gonna let the power difference go to my head. I start the Tail Whips as he comes out swinging...well, tackling. After three I test the waters with Quick Attack, and it does about a fourth. At this point the Tackles are starting to get to me so I heal up and start Growling. He crits me for like 5 or 6 damage which is very promising. I don't want Brock to heal him up so I QA once more, follow it up with a couple of Tail Whips, and QA for the KO.
When I see that Onix is level 12 and not 15 like he is in Blue, I figure I got this game bagged. I start the Tail Whips and he starts Tackling me. He doesn't actually use Bide for the first few turns but when he does it's all good in the hood since that gives me a few free turns to debuff him. After a few Tail Whips I use Quick Attack to see how I'm doing.
It does like 4 damage. It was also a critical hit.
And I was like daaaaaaaaaaang Onix you and your over nine thousand Defense. I continue debuffing while he struggles to kill me. One time after Bide I was stupid and did QA on the turn he unleashed, he hit me for 3/4 of my life and it was like wheewwwwww. I thought I had this match completely won until he started using Screech, which scared me because he was slowly undoing all my Growling and if he crits me I am gonna cry. I had no choice here but to use Fudge to reset the counter. Since he had no Rock moves I was free to Peck him to death, getting me past the first part of this manly challenge.
Bide is such a dumb move.
I heal up and head out to Route 3, killing trainers. I get to the tall grass and I am excited to see what is in store for me now that I have a new opportunity to catch something new. Oh boy, what could it beeeeeee?
...No. I slaughter it, only to run into THREE MORE. Finally, I run into something different:
Sweeeeeet. (Not really, but I heart me some Raper Fang) I name her Betsy, because I figure that is a cool name for a rat. Also, she's a girl because creative license.
So I heal it up and fight a couple battles, nearly get killed, and that's where I'm at. Next stop: Mt. Moon and of course I'm going to run into a Zubat first because there are 80000000000 of them.
THE TEAM SO FAR
I ran into Zubat first (as if there was any doubt) and decided to kill it because Zubat is a horrible Pokemon and I would rather focus on my team of champions than waste time 12hkoing neutral targets with Leech Life. So no new additions here. I picked up Water Gun and, after a couple battles, taught it to Betsy to troll any Geodude I might find. Getting the first few levels with Betsy was fairly difficult because the stupid Clefairy girl kept Growling and putting my dudes to sleep (oh god gen 1 sleep mechanics). Once I got Hyper Fang, though, it was all over for everything in Mt. Moon. By the time I get towards the end, my winners are starting to feel the burn of some harsh training (except Takeshi, who didn't do much here). I thrash the super nerd fossil guy and wondered, why is this guy so on edge? Why doesn't he just move his fossils out of the way? I mean, _he_ jumps _you._ Probably just tweaking out on some crack or w/e. Anyway I take the Helix Fossil since it's right in front of me and breathe a sigh of relief, BUT OOPS THIS IS YELLOW I HAVE MORE FIGHTING.
VS TEAM ROCKET
This was the hardest fight yet. At this point I was out of Hyper Fangs so I had to go against Ekans with Betsy's Quick Attack. Ekans was 2hkoed but left me a present in the form of poison >:[
Of course I have no Antidotes so I'm on a clock and don't like it. Meowth is up next. Betsy is still in good health so I continue to QA him until he dies. When Koffing comes out I am getting low on hp so I switch to Takeshi to take him on. Of course, just my luck, I switch into Smog and it's 250% poison rate so obviously she gets poisoned too. >:[ I zap him into submission and we are all pretty much dead after the battle. I don't know if there are any trainers between here and Cerulean City and I am pretty sure I will never make it if I try to walk there. I have no choice but to use the Escape Rope I picked up, heal, and walk all the way through Mt. Moon again.
Of course I found that there _are_ no Trainers on Route 4 [I can fight right now], so derp.
Before I hit Cerulean City I decided to use the grass on Route 4 for my new teammate. Wasn't really sure what was here so I ran around excitedly. And of course it was Rattata. And then Spearow. And then Rattata again, followed by two more Spearow. FINALLY I run into none other than Mankey, who would have made my first two hours much easier. I enslave him and nickname him Joe, after my kid brother who, when he was a kid, acted much like Mankey: angers easily and delivers fury of scratches. lol.jpg
Leveling up Joe has been difficult since I have stopped seeing Rattata altogether on Route 4. ONLY SPEAROW, fml. I ran into another Mankey and MEGA PUNCHed him and it was a clear 2hko so I wasn't worried when he was gonna do the same to me with Low Kick. Stupid me forgot that we were the same level and thus had the same stats so of course just my luck I lose the speed tie and get Low Kicked. Joe summons his inner monkey powers and lives with 1 hp and delivers a mighty MEGA PUNCH, sending the opposing Mankey to the moon.
I would have been really mad if Joe had died there considering I used my Mega Punch TM on him and it's a cool move but... nope. The flawless run continues. Next stop: well, route 4. I know what's up next and Joe is gonna need to be like 10 levels higher if he wants to stand any chance at seeing life outside of that route.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L18
Fudge L18
Betsy L18
Joe L11
VS TEAM ROCKET
This was the hardest fight yet. At this point I was out of Hyper Fangs so I had to go against Ekans with Betsy's Quick Attack. Ekans was 2hkoed but left me a present in the form of poison >:[
Of course I have no Antidotes so I'm on a clock and don't like it. Meowth is up next. Betsy is still in good health so I continue to QA him until he dies. When Koffing comes out I am getting low on hp so I switch to Takeshi to take him on. Of course, just my luck, I switch into Smog and it's 250% poison rate so obviously she gets poisoned too. >:[ I zap him into submission and we are all pretty much dead after the battle. I don't know if there are any trainers between here and Cerulean City and I am pretty sure I will never make it if I try to walk there. I have no choice but to use the Escape Rope I picked up, heal, and walk all the way through Mt. Moon again.
Of course I found that there _are_ no Trainers on Route 4 [I can fight right now], so derp.
Before I hit Cerulean City I decided to use the grass on Route 4 for my new teammate. Wasn't really sure what was here so I ran around excitedly. And of course it was Rattata. And then Spearow. And then Rattata again, followed by two more Spearow. FINALLY I run into none other than Mankey, who would have made my first two hours much easier. I enslave him and nickname him Joe, after my kid brother who, when he was a kid, acted much like Mankey: angers easily and delivers fury of scratches. lol.jpg
Leveling up Joe has been difficult since I have stopped seeing Rattata altogether on Route 4. ONLY SPEAROW, fml. I ran into another Mankey and MEGA PUNCHed him and it was a clear 2hko so I wasn't worried when he was gonna do the same to me with Low Kick. Stupid me forgot that we were the same level and thus had the same stats so of course just my luck I lose the speed tie and get Low Kicked. Joe summons his inner monkey powers and lives with 1 hp and delivers a mighty MEGA PUNCH, sending the opposing Mankey to the moon.
I would have been really mad if Joe had died there considering I used my Mega Punch TM on him and it's a cool move but... nope. The flawless run continues. Next stop: well, route 4. I know what's up next and Joe is gonna need to be like 10 levels higher if he wants to stand any chance at seeing life outside of that route.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Okay, so I figure Gary's first Pokemon is an Abra so I can get some free exp so I take him on even though Joe's only level 15...
VS GARY
NOPE IT'S SPEAROW LOL
So now I start panicking, I switch out to Takeshi and zap him for his insolence. I don't know what else happened but this fight was kinda difficult. But I WON. :>
Okay so I heal up and take on Nugget Bridge, and make it through four people before I gotta go heal again. I get my Nugget and even though I think we all have told that guy we'd love to join Team Rocket he still didn't listen to me so I had to whoop him. NEW ROUTE NEW TEAMMATE YAY
And the first thing I run into is...probably Rattata or something? I dunno but it wasn't for a couple battles that I run into an Oddish, f yeah oddish. I decide she is female and name her Samantha because like Betsy the Rattata it is a cool name.
I go back and heal and head to Route Something. I take the time to level up Samantha a little on the hikers (Onix is faaaaaast) but I run out of healing items pretty quick. By the time I make it to Bill's I am on my last legs but I do it. I walk in and of course Takeshi is like wuuuuuuuuut duuuuuuuuuuude and so I go reluctantly help Bill out while asking myself what happened to the Pokemon that Bill was messing with and why he was doing that and when he comes out Takeshi FREAKS OUT like HOLY <censored> IT'S A PERSON. lol.
Get my ticket. Walk back. Heal up and enter the gym. Samantha runs train. Badge Get!!
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L18
Fudge L19
Betsy L19
Joe L16
Samantha L19
VS GARY
NOPE IT'S SPEAROW LOL
So now I start panicking, I switch out to Takeshi and zap him for his insolence. I don't know what else happened but this fight was kinda difficult. But I WON. :>
Okay so I heal up and take on Nugget Bridge, and make it through four people before I gotta go heal again. I get my Nugget and even though I think we all have told that guy we'd love to join Team Rocket he still didn't listen to me so I had to whoop him. NEW ROUTE NEW TEAMMATE YAY
And the first thing I run into is...probably Rattata or something? I dunno but it wasn't for a couple battles that I run into an Oddish, f yeah oddish. I decide she is female and name her Samantha because like Betsy the Rattata it is a cool name.
I go back and heal and head to Route Something. I take the time to level up Samantha a little on the hikers (Onix is faaaaaast) but I run out of healing items pretty quick. By the time I make it to Bill's I am on my last legs but I do it. I walk in and of course Takeshi is like wuuuuuuuuut duuuuuuuuuuude and so I go reluctantly help Bill out while asking myself what happened to the Pokemon that Bill was messing with and why he was doing that and when he comes out Takeshi FREAKS OUT like HOLY <censored> IT'S A PERSON. lol.
Get my ticket. Walk back. Heal up and enter the gym. Samantha runs train. Badge Get!!
THE TEAM SO FAR
Wow it's been a while. But I haven't really had the opportunity to update. I also suffer my first loss D: Here goes.
So I get done with Misty and head on out, feeling good and spirits are high. Gotta head on down to Vermilion City, so I do. Officer Jenny dangles a Squirtle in front of me but I have to prove my manliness against Lt. Surge first. DEAL.
The people on Route Something-or-other prove to be little trouble. I just want a bike so I speed to Vermilion City as fast as I can. I walk into the fan club and Takeshi gets hot for some guy's Clefairy. I listen to how the fan club prez molests his Rapidash when it's sleeping (or not, I wasn't paying attention) and get a BIKE VOUCHER.
Get my bike on.
Now that I am fast-mode, I head east to Route Who-cares-new-teammate-time. Before I can run into someone I hit a trainer. Joe is my weakest member so he's up first but oops, he DIES to a critical hit Karate Chop >:[[[[[[[[[[[ My team is out for blood and Betsy charges fangs first into the fray. She sinks her sharp Poke-chompers into Machop's veiny neck and roars triumphantly as he falls to the ground, blood spurting in every direction. And as the last of Machop's pitiful life force wanes, Betsy begins to change...
We hold a service for our fallen comrade and head back out to replace him. First dude I run into is a Drowzee who I really hate fighting because he never freakin' dies. Takeshi goes up against him and Thundershock is like a 8HKO. I almost forget I need to catch him when he is almost dead and gets paralyzed (finally) by Thundershock. One ball later and Chuck the Drowzee is mine. I named him Chuck because it seems like a creeper name, and Drowzee is a super creeper.
I spend X number of minutes leveling up Chuck and preparing for the S.S. Anne by way of murdering wild Pokemon and any trainer dumb enough to get in my way.
Finally, we're ready. S.S. Anne proves to be no trouble. Gary's like sup? I'm like get out of my way Gary I am on a mission. And he's like NO I BAT U. So I stomp him. I get my Cut and take off. I cast a sexy glance at Officer Jenny to let her know I'm coming for her later (giggity) and cut my way to the gym.
Surge's lackeys prove to be no problem, even though I'm not doing this gym easy mode with Diglett stomping everyone. I did get scared a bit as one guy's Voltorb blew himself up which did about 90% to Takeshi (luckily I had healed before the fight or else she would have died), but other than that there was no problem. As usual I heal up but don't save since there's no point. Surge and I should be on equal footing, and Voltorb doesn't even know any Electr--
wait. what? Only one Pokemon? Oh god it's Raichu isn't it. OH GOD IT IS AND IT'S LEVEL 28. Stupid freakin' Yellow version and your living up to the tv show. I am leading with Betsy because she's the only one who isn't level 24 yet (you can see how much of a disadvantage I'm at here).
I don't know how the first turn went but it was spent being dumb. Next turn Surge uses an X Speed on Raichu just to rub salt in the wound that is about to be a rectal breaching. Betsy uses Hyper Fang for about 20% and that's when I start crying.
Next turn Betsy gets critical hit Thunderbolted and she's down. I'm like BETSY NOOOOOOOOOO and Chuck comes out to "revenge" since he's got the best chance at taking Thunderbolt. Raichu is like "lol" and does MEGA KICK which is one of the manliest moves in Pokemon history (right up there with Sky Attack, Earthquake, and Explosion). Chuck is a boss and lives with like 2% and it is with a heavy heart I regret pressing Confusion (which does pittance) to Hypnosis and trying to get that sleep off. Next turn Raichu MEGA PUNCHes Chuck straight to the moon and now I'm down two teammates.
I gotta put Raichu to sleep or I am losing this fight. Samantha comes out, tanks a Mega Punch, and lands the Sleep Powder. Raichu never wakes up and I Cut the last of his HP away. Badge get.
Half my team is dead. Thankfully Samantha is still alive so I cut my way to the town and pick up my Squirtle, telling Officer Jenny I ain't in the mood for any loving tonight, I just lost two of my best friends. I need a manly name for a manly Pokemon (Blastoise is undoubtedly one of the most BA Pokemon of all time) and I decide on Xander because that is a BA name.
Before I head to Rock Tunnel I have to grind and get him up a dozen levels so's I don't waste trainer exp. I do this and remember I haven't been through Diglett's Cave yet. I do so, picking up a Diglett on the way. I don't want it on my team but I don't want to leave it in case I need it later, so I don't nickname it and shove it in the box. I pick up Flash, teach it to Takeshi. Make my way back to Cerulean and nearly get slaughtered by a L29 Dugtrio in the process.
En route to Rock Tunnel Fudge gets poisoned by some chick's Weedle or whatever. I realize that I just jumped a cliff to get to her and there's no way back and of course I don't have any antidotes. I start planning every step to the Pokemon Center and hope I can stall with Super Potions long enough to keep Fudge alive. Then I go into the tall grass (no encounters) and realize I can get back to Cerulean City after all. Whew.
So that's where I'm at now.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L24
Fudge L24
Samantha L24
Xander L24
So I get done with Misty and head on out, feeling good and spirits are high. Gotta head on down to Vermilion City, so I do. Officer Jenny dangles a Squirtle in front of me but I have to prove my manliness against Lt. Surge first. DEAL.
The people on Route Something-or-other prove to be little trouble. I just want a bike so I speed to Vermilion City as fast as I can. I walk into the fan club and Takeshi gets hot for some guy's Clefairy. I listen to how the fan club prez molests his Rapidash when it's sleeping (or not, I wasn't paying attention) and get a BIKE VOUCHER.
Get my bike on.
Now that I am fast-mode, I head east to Route Who-cares-new-teammate-time. Before I can run into someone I hit a trainer. Joe is my weakest member so he's up first but oops, he DIES to a critical hit Karate Chop >:[[[[[[[[[[[ My team is out for blood and Betsy charges fangs first into the fray. She sinks her sharp Poke-chompers into Machop's veiny neck and roars triumphantly as he falls to the ground, blood spurting in every direction. And as the last of Machop's pitiful life force wanes, Betsy begins to change...
We hold a service for our fallen comrade and head back out to replace him. First dude I run into is a Drowzee who I really hate fighting because he never freakin' dies. Takeshi goes up against him and Thundershock is like a 8HKO. I almost forget I need to catch him when he is almost dead and gets paralyzed (finally) by Thundershock. One ball later and Chuck the Drowzee is mine. I named him Chuck because it seems like a creeper name, and Drowzee is a super creeper.
I spend X number of minutes leveling up Chuck and preparing for the S.S. Anne by way of murdering wild Pokemon and any trainer dumb enough to get in my way.
Finally, we're ready. S.S. Anne proves to be no trouble. Gary's like sup? I'm like get out of my way Gary I am on a mission. And he's like NO I BAT U. So I stomp him. I get my Cut and take off. I cast a sexy glance at Officer Jenny to let her know I'm coming for her later (giggity) and cut my way to the gym.
Surge's lackeys prove to be no problem, even though I'm not doing this gym easy mode with Diglett stomping everyone. I did get scared a bit as one guy's Voltorb blew himself up which did about 90% to Takeshi (luckily I had healed before the fight or else she would have died), but other than that there was no problem. As usual I heal up but don't save since there's no point. Surge and I should be on equal footing, and Voltorb doesn't even know any Electr--
wait. what? Only one Pokemon? Oh god it's Raichu isn't it. OH GOD IT IS AND IT'S LEVEL 28. Stupid freakin' Yellow version and your living up to the tv show. I am leading with Betsy because she's the only one who isn't level 24 yet (you can see how much of a disadvantage I'm at here).
I don't know how the first turn went but it was spent being dumb. Next turn Surge uses an X Speed on Raichu just to rub salt in the wound that is about to be a rectal breaching. Betsy uses Hyper Fang for about 20% and that's when I start crying.
Next turn Betsy gets critical hit Thunderbolted and she's down. I'm like BETSY NOOOOOOOOOO and Chuck comes out to "revenge" since he's got the best chance at taking Thunderbolt. Raichu is like "lol" and does MEGA KICK which is one of the manliest moves in Pokemon history (right up there with Sky Attack, Earthquake, and Explosion). Chuck is a boss and lives with like 2% and it is with a heavy heart I regret pressing Confusion (which does pittance) to Hypnosis and trying to get that sleep off. Next turn Raichu MEGA PUNCHes Chuck straight to the moon and now I'm down two teammates.
I gotta put Raichu to sleep or I am losing this fight. Samantha comes out, tanks a Mega Punch, and lands the Sleep Powder. Raichu never wakes up and I Cut the last of his HP away. Badge get.
Half my team is dead. Thankfully Samantha is still alive so I cut my way to the town and pick up my Squirtle, telling Officer Jenny I ain't in the mood for any loving tonight, I just lost two of my best friends. I need a manly name for a manly Pokemon (Blastoise is undoubtedly one of the most BA Pokemon of all time) and I decide on Xander because that is a BA name.
Before I head to Rock Tunnel I have to grind and get him up a dozen levels so's I don't waste trainer exp. I do this and remember I haven't been through Diglett's Cave yet. I do so, picking up a Diglett on the way. I don't want it on my team but I don't want to leave it in case I need it later, so I don't nickname it and shove it in the box. I pick up Flash, teach it to Takeshi. Make my way back to Cerulean and nearly get slaughtered by a L29 Dugtrio in the process.
En route to Rock Tunnel Fudge gets poisoned by some chick's Weedle or whatever. I realize that I just jumped a cliff to get to her and there's no way back and of course I don't have any antidotes. I start planning every step to the Pokemon Center and hope I can stall with Super Potions long enough to keep Fudge alive. Then I go into the tall grass (no encounters) and realize I can get back to Cerulean City after all. Whew.
So that's where I'm at now.
THE TEAM SO FAR
All right so I manage to get to make it to Rock Tunnel with no troubles. Right before I enter I run into Magnemite and I'm like "sweet, Electric type" but he only knows Tackle ://////// I name him Zapderp because he zaps things. And also derp. I get into battle and Tackle something and something threatens to 2hko me so I have to switch.
And that's when I see Takeshi and feel like a huge tardo. Into the box Zapderp goes.
Rock Tunnel consisted of Samantha sucking the life out of rocks and Cutting everything else (ran into Geodude first, can't trade so he got murdered). I think she learned Acid sometime in here which has made life so much easier. I will have to check if she is gonna get anything else worthwhile because I don't want Petal Dance and I already have Sleep Powder, the most broken move in gen 1.
Once I get to Lavender Town I heal up and derp around, going to routes trying to find new teammates.
On Route 8 I ran into Pidgey. I caught it and stuffed it in the box. On Route 7 I ran into an Abra. He flew away. This game is seriously trolling me, I ran into Abra once before on some other route he's on.
Anyway kill kill kill, murder murder murder, and oh look at that I have Fly now. Around this time Takeshi finally learns Thunderbolt (what, you thought I used the TM?) and it's a godsend. Finally I feel like she isn't dead weight. And in gen 1, Thunderbolt sounds so menacing and dangerous. I pick up a Leaf Stone for Samantha (not used yet) and get some water for the guards. I forgot that the thirsty girl is here too so I indulge her and HOLY CRAP SHE GAVE ME ICE BEAM? AND ROCK SLIDE? OH GEN 1 YOU SO AWESOME. She gives me Tri Attack too but what, like only Porygon learns it? I consider whoring out my moneys to try and buy one but I decide against it and head to the Game Corner to clean house.
La la la. More than once I see "No more room for items!" which really makes me hate gen 1. God I can't wait until I get to Fuchsia. Only interesting thing here is Team Rocket because I forgot this was Yellow and I was like OH MY GOD WHAT'S GOING ON when they jumped me at the end. Xander was more than happy to feast on their souls.
VS GIOVANNI
Bubblebeam x4 (or 5) (Persian took two (or three) hits)
I claim the Silph Scope and rope out. Time to get a badge.
I stroll up into the gym. I am approached by a hot girl (because Erika only employs hotties) who tells me there are no men allowed. I show her my Poke Balls. She knows I'm here for a fight. She points me towards Erika, goddess among women. She smells awesome because she's all into that aroma junk. She is instantly attracted to the fact that I never talk and we go out for a night on the town. After some wining and dining and a night of passion, I wake up the next day realizing what happened, and I sneak out of her place (but not before stealing a badge and a TM from her underwear drawer (because that's totally where she keeps them)).
Okay, fine. Here's what actually happened: Fudge OHKOed everyone with Fly (weaklings with Peck). See? That doesn't make for very entertaining reading, so you get this thing with Erika instead. Isn't that way better? (yes)
Since I can fly now, I soar to Lavender Town. I figure that now's as good a time as any to get Diglett out of the box since he should be able to level up fairly quickly, especially since full cure is a few steps away and Dig will actually hit Gastly. I name him Clyde since Dugtrio reminds me of Triclyde from SMB2. Of course, just my luck that _my_ Diglett doesn't know Dig so I gotta fly back to some joke route because all I have is Scratch to hurt things and Diglett's base HP stat may as well be zero. Good freakin' luck to me.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L28
Fudge L32
Samantha L31
Xander L31
Clyde L18
And that's when I see Takeshi and feel like a huge tardo. Into the box Zapderp goes.
Rock Tunnel consisted of Samantha sucking the life out of rocks and Cutting everything else (ran into Geodude first, can't trade so he got murdered). I think she learned Acid sometime in here which has made life so much easier. I will have to check if she is gonna get anything else worthwhile because I don't want Petal Dance and I already have Sleep Powder, the most broken move in gen 1.
Once I get to Lavender Town I heal up and derp around, going to routes trying to find new teammates.
On Route 8 I ran into Pidgey. I caught it and stuffed it in the box. On Route 7 I ran into an Abra. He flew away. This game is seriously trolling me, I ran into Abra once before on some other route he's on.
Anyway kill kill kill, murder murder murder, and oh look at that I have Fly now. Around this time Takeshi finally learns Thunderbolt (what, you thought I used the TM?) and it's a godsend. Finally I feel like she isn't dead weight. And in gen 1, Thunderbolt sounds so menacing and dangerous. I pick up a Leaf Stone for Samantha (not used yet) and get some water for the guards. I forgot that the thirsty girl is here too so I indulge her and HOLY CRAP SHE GAVE ME ICE BEAM? AND ROCK SLIDE? OH GEN 1 YOU SO AWESOME. She gives me Tri Attack too but what, like only Porygon learns it? I consider whoring out my moneys to try and buy one but I decide against it and head to the Game Corner to clean house.
La la la. More than once I see "No more room for items!" which really makes me hate gen 1. God I can't wait until I get to Fuchsia. Only interesting thing here is Team Rocket because I forgot this was Yellow and I was like OH MY GOD WHAT'S GOING ON when they jumped me at the end. Xander was more than happy to feast on their souls.
VS GIOVANNI
Bubblebeam x4 (or 5) (Persian took two (or three) hits)
I claim the Silph Scope and rope out. Time to get a badge.
I stroll up into the gym. I am approached by a hot girl (because Erika only employs hotties) who tells me there are no men allowed. I show her my Poke Balls. She knows I'm here for a fight. She points me towards Erika, goddess among women. She smells awesome because she's all into that aroma junk. She is instantly attracted to the fact that I never talk and we go out for a night on the town. After some wining and dining and a night of passion, I wake up the next day realizing what happened, and I sneak out of her place (but not before stealing a badge and a TM from her underwear drawer (because that's totally where she keeps them)).
Okay, fine. Here's what actually happened: Fudge OHKOed everyone with Fly (weaklings with Peck). See? That doesn't make for very entertaining reading, so you get this thing with Erika instead. Isn't that way better? (yes)
Since I can fly now, I soar to Lavender Town. I figure that now's as good a time as any to get Diglett out of the box since he should be able to level up fairly quickly, especially since full cure is a few steps away and Dig will actually hit Gastly. I name him Clyde since Dugtrio reminds me of Triclyde from SMB2. Of course, just my luck that _my_ Diglett doesn't know Dig so I gotta fly back to some joke route because all I have is Scratch to hurt things and Diglett's base HP stat may as well be zero. Good freakin' luck to me.
THE TEAM SO FAR
I use the ultra boring "switch the weak dude out" technique rather than waste a Rare Candy so Clyde levels up and learns Dig. Great. All right so after I fly back to Lavender Town and stomp Gary down, he cries home to his mama. Just kidding, he's an orphan. Head up the steps and of course all the Gastly there are packing Confuse Ray and Night Shade (which is a 2hko on Clyde because he seriously has that much HP) so of couuuuuuuuuuuurse life isn't gonna be easy even with Dig. I think to myself okay I can lead vs a random wild Gastly and win it. I get into my first battle and it goes something like this:
wild Gastly appeared
go Clyde
Gastly used Lick
it freakin' hurt
UNDERGROUND GO
Gastly derped
Dig
it hurt
Horn Drill Aeroblast Hydro Pump Night Shade
Clyde's soul is ripped from his body and sent to poke-hell
Needless to say, I mad. I really could have used a Ground-type for the fight against Koga but now I am screwed until I get to the Safari Zone and catch Rhyhorn.
Back to four people again, god. I ascend the tower and slaughter everyone in blind rage in honor of my fallen teammate for all of 20 minutes.
Side note: The Channelers don't really make a lot of sense. They're all possessed by the ghosts, but they use only Ghost-type Pokemon??? Also they are seriously pretty creepy, one of them asked me to give her blood and then attacked me. I think another one wanted my soul. You need some real stones to ascend Pokemon Tower. No wonder everyone stays on the first floor.
All right so I got my Poke Flute, yeah? Time to progress and hopefully get another teammate while I wait for Rhyhorn because I'm starting to get sick of only having four members.
I decide to go west and take Cycling Road to Fuchsia City. Either way it's not good news for Samantha because it's sludgy guys one way and birds the other. But wait there's a fat thing in my way!
VS SNORLAX
This fight was basically Yellow's way of apologizing to Samantha. I switched her in as Snorlax Rested off a weak Bubblebeam from Xander and he never made another move after that (unless you call waking up a move). Because I may very well have to resort to using him, I captured him and named him Noobnerd after Noobnerd, who apparently thought I should go back to naming my team after beach members. I drop him off in the box and head out to Route 17.
After clearing out the biker nerds up top, I head to the grass and be kind of excited. I'm not sure what's in this grass. I know Doduo is here, and it would be really lame if I ran into hit here. I probably should have caught it when I had the chance. Guess now I know for future nuzlockes. So, what do we got... Fearow? Nope. Fearow again? Nope. Whoa, Ponyta? BUCK YEAH PONYTA YOU ARE SO MINE. So I make her mine. I name her Twilight because ponies.
Man, Rapidash is so BA, even without Megahorn. I hope she doesn't die. :>
Fighting without Samantha is like I'm fighting all my battles with one hand behind my back. She can't fight anything because even nve Sludges does Stolen damage and I can't recover it back with Mega Drain (I used the TM here so if Samantha dies I'm gonna be seriously Pokemon Online'd.) Fudge takes the lead here since he's the only one who can reliably power through the Poison-types' defenses. Somehow, some way, I make it to the bottom and NEW GRASS OH YEAH. All right what do we got here...Bellsprout.
All right so finally I am Fuchsia time. I consider going straight for the Safari Zone but decide to heal up first. SAFARI ZONE TIME FOR RHYHORN. Dude is like the most common thing in every single area, there's no way I'm gonna not gonna run into him first, right?
WILD NIDORINO APPEARED
fffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhey wait a second. Nidorino evolves into Nidoking, who is extremely manly and is possibly the manliest gen 1 mon there is. I'll take it! Chuck a ball and ROFL NO CHANCE. I don't wanna chuck a rock because that rock is covered in extremespeed dust and makes them run so fast so I chuck bait. He sits and noms it. I throw out like 6 more safari balls and THEY ALL FAIL. wild pmj's hopes and dreams fled!
Dozens of Pokemon, and I can't have a single one of them. (I looked on serebii after this and saw that I only had a 10% chance of seeing Rhyhorn, which is the second highest encounter rate (the highest is 15%) so apparently Rhyhorn isn't as common as I thought. Also, Nidoking can't even learn Dig, which is the whole reason I wanted him, so whatever) Great. I Super Repel the rest of the way through the Safari Zone and get my Surf on. After draining the clock I forget all about the warden and fly back to Lavender Town so I can take on Silence Bridge. I ran into a Pokemon there. It was a Bellsprout, and I cried.
After that I checked out the Pokedex to see where I can find me a digger. I could use me a digger so I can save inventory space by selling my escape ropes. Rhyhorn is only in the Safari Zone, Cubone is only in Pokemon Tower (I actually ran into one, but not before I ran into the Gastly that killed MY ONLY GROUND-TYPE), Sandshrew is unavailable, and Onix is only possible way after I fight Koga (and I run into it first in Victory Road). I figure I will never get me a digger and consider using Noobnerd but he can't learn Dig either so screw him.
I checked on Smogon and I realize that I will pretty much never have anyone who can use Dig (trololol: Primeape and Raticate can both learn it). Arbok is the only Pokemon who I still haven't seen that can learn it that I would actually need BUT, TROLOLOL, HE'S NOT IN YELLOW.
Screw this game.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L34
Fudge L35
Samantha L33
Xander L36
Twilight L34
wild Gastly appeared
go Clyde
Gastly used Lick
it freakin' hurt
UNDERGROUND GO
Gastly derped
Dig
it hurt
Clyde's soul is ripped from his body and sent to poke-hell
Needless to say, I mad. I really could have used a Ground-type for the fight against Koga but now I am screwed until I get to the Safari Zone and catch Rhyhorn.
Back to four people again, god. I ascend the tower and slaughter everyone in blind rage in honor of my fallen teammate for all of 20 minutes.
Side note: The Channelers don't really make a lot of sense. They're all possessed by the ghosts, but they use only Ghost-type Pokemon??? Also they are seriously pretty creepy, one of them asked me to give her blood and then attacked me. I think another one wanted my soul. You need some real stones to ascend Pokemon Tower. No wonder everyone stays on the first floor.
All right so I got my Poke Flute, yeah? Time to progress and hopefully get another teammate while I wait for Rhyhorn because I'm starting to get sick of only having four members.
I decide to go west and take Cycling Road to Fuchsia City. Either way it's not good news for Samantha because it's sludgy guys one way and birds the other. But wait there's a fat thing in my way!
VS SNORLAX
This fight was basically Yellow's way of apologizing to Samantha. I switched her in as Snorlax Rested off a weak Bubblebeam from Xander and he never made another move after that (unless you call waking up a move). Because I may very well have to resort to using him, I captured him and named him Noobnerd after Noobnerd, who apparently thought I should go back to naming my team after beach members. I drop him off in the box and head out to Route 17.
After clearing out the biker nerds up top, I head to the grass and be kind of excited. I'm not sure what's in this grass. I know Doduo is here, and it would be really lame if I ran into hit here. I probably should have caught it when I had the chance. Guess now I know for future nuzlockes. So, what do we got... Fearow? Nope. Fearow again? Nope. Whoa, Ponyta? BUCK YEAH PONYTA YOU ARE SO MINE. So I make her mine. I name her Twilight because ponies.
Man, Rapidash is so BA, even without Megahorn. I hope she doesn't die. :>
Fighting without Samantha is like I'm fighting all my battles with one hand behind my back. She can't fight anything because even nve Sludges does Stolen damage and I can't recover it back with Mega Drain (I used the TM here so if Samantha dies I'm gonna be seriously Pokemon Online'd.) Fudge takes the lead here since he's the only one who can reliably power through the Poison-types' defenses. Somehow, some way, I make it to the bottom and NEW GRASS OH YEAH. All right what do we got here...Bellsprout.
All right so finally I am Fuchsia time. I consider going straight for the Safari Zone but decide to heal up first. SAFARI ZONE TIME FOR RHYHORN. Dude is like the most common thing in every single area, there's no way I'm gonna not gonna run into him first, right?
WILD NIDORINO APPEARED
fffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhey wait a second. Nidorino evolves into Nidoking, who is extremely manly and is possibly the manliest gen 1 mon there is. I'll take it! Chuck a ball and ROFL NO CHANCE. I don't wanna chuck a rock because that rock is covered in extremespeed dust and makes them run so fast so I chuck bait. He sits and noms it. I throw out like 6 more safari balls and THEY ALL FAIL. wild pmj's hopes and dreams fled!
Dozens of Pokemon, and I can't have a single one of them. (I looked on serebii after this and saw that I only had a 10% chance of seeing Rhyhorn, which is the second highest encounter rate (the highest is 15%) so apparently Rhyhorn isn't as common as I thought. Also, Nidoking can't even learn Dig, which is the whole reason I wanted him, so whatever) Great. I Super Repel the rest of the way through the Safari Zone and get my Surf on. After draining the clock I forget all about the warden and fly back to Lavender Town so I can take on Silence Bridge. I ran into a Pokemon there. It was a Bellsprout, and I cried.
After that I checked out the Pokedex to see where I can find me a digger. I could use me a digger so I can save inventory space by selling my escape ropes. Rhyhorn is only in the Safari Zone, Cubone is only in Pokemon Tower (I actually ran into one, but not before I ran into the Gastly that killed MY ONLY GROUND-TYPE), Sandshrew is unavailable, and Onix is only possible way after I fight Koga (and I run into it first in Victory Road). I figure I will never get me a digger and consider using Noobnerd but he can't learn Dig either so screw him.
I checked on Smogon and I realize that I will pretty much never have anyone who can use Dig (trololol: Primeape and Raticate can both learn it). Arbok is the only Pokemon who I still haven't seen that can learn it that I would actually need BUT, TROLOLOL, HE'S NOT IN YELLOW.
Screw this game.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Where was I? Oh yeah, Silence Bridge. Okay so I took out the rest of them dudes but I had to fly back to Fuchsia like 80 times because I kept using Twilight to kill everything and I kept running out of Ember PP. TO THE GYM
This is the first Gym that actually gave me trouble from the start. The first guy I fight has a L38 Drowzee that showed he was capable of 2hkoing Takeshi with Confusion so I started to get scared. Then he starts using Psychic and threatens to 2hko half my team but I get him down. The rest of the gym is basically a repeat of that fight. Takeshi Thunderbolts something (read as: Drowzee or, even worse, Hypno, oh GOD Hypno), then takes a weak STAB Psychic move and nearly dies. Takeshi was even brought to 3 HP by a critical hit from some dude in the Gym, thank the lord she lived. I wind up using Fudge for most the gym because Fly is enough to seriously maim or outright kill everything (and he wasn't 2hkoed by insert Psychic move here). Eventually, like a dozen Hyper Potions and Full Heals later, I am finally ready to confront Koga. I'm feeling pretty positive about this because his lackeys, for the most part, have been slightly below me in level. Koga should be right up there and all he has is like a Weezing and uhhh...I dunno. Not like it matters, Sludge Bomb doesn't exist and Sludge is dumb. I actually think his Weezing knows Tackle. What's the worst that could happen?
VS KOGA
Koga sent out Venonat!
*record scratch* OH MY GOD THIS IS YELLOW. OH GOD IT'S LEVEL 44.
I started to panic at this point. I can't remember what else is on his team, but I don't care at the moment because his weakest Pokemon is 4 levels higher than my strongest Pokemon. I lead with Takeshi because she's the lowest level I have. I zap him with Thunderbolt and it's like a 3-4hko. Meanwhile he retaliates with Sleep Powder and I go to bed. I wake her up using a Full Heal (forgot I even had the Poke Flute). He uses Psychic and, of course, it's a 2hko. I realize Bug is weak to Flying and switch in Fudge to take the attack. I wind up getting in scot free as he whiffs a Supersonic and using Fly to OHKO.
Koga sent out Venonat!
I see it's level 46 and cringe. I remember this team now and I know what devil awaits me at the end. I seriously start to think I'm going to lose this battle.
I outspeed this Venonat (and the next one) and OHKO with Fly.
Koga sent out Venomoth!
And here's where the battle goes downhill. At level 50, Venomoth outspeeds my whole team by a mile. Koga's mad that I made such short work of his first three guys that he uses his ninja powers to force a critical hit Psychic, which kills Fudge in one hit. Honestly, I'm not sure if it would have OHKOed (considering Psychic doesn't OHKO anyone else except probably Samantha, I doubt it), but there went my best shot at victory. I wonder what to do here. I figure Takeshi is most expendable since I don't want to pull another Chuck and lose Twilight right after I freakin' get her, so out she goes.
After eating a Psychic, I hit with Thunderbolt and that is probably like a 6hko. This isn't gonna work. I have to run. I don't know who else to go to. Samantha is out of the question. I really don't want to use Twilight yet even though she stands the best chance of beating Venomoth now. I figure Blastoise is pretty bulky, right? I send out Xander and Psychic is a 3hko on him, which is pretty nice. Unfortunately my Surfs are only doing a little less than a quarter on him, and he hits me with Toxic so that's no good. I try to stall with healing but the toxic poison starts taking its toll. At one point it knocks me down to about no life so I go to Twilight. I get nailed with Psychic and whiff Fire Spin, which was probably the absolute worst possible scenario.
After some more healing (and running out of Hyper Potions) I manage to land an Ember (even after a Double Team) and seal the victory. That was too close...
Now that my bird is dead I go get Pidgey from the box. I teach her fly, and head to Lavender Town to name her. I named her Crystal, and if you can't figure out why, you are a noob.
Takeshi L36
Samantha L38
Xander L36
Twilight L40
Crystal L22
This is the first Gym that actually gave me trouble from the start. The first guy I fight has a L38 Drowzee that showed he was capable of 2hkoing Takeshi with Confusion so I started to get scared. Then he starts using Psychic and threatens to 2hko half my team but I get him down. The rest of the gym is basically a repeat of that fight. Takeshi Thunderbolts something (read as: Drowzee or, even worse, Hypno, oh GOD Hypno), then takes a weak STAB Psychic move and nearly dies. Takeshi was even brought to 3 HP by a critical hit from some dude in the Gym, thank the lord she lived. I wind up using Fudge for most the gym because Fly is enough to seriously maim or outright kill everything (and he wasn't 2hkoed by insert Psychic move here). Eventually, like a dozen Hyper Potions and Full Heals later, I am finally ready to confront Koga. I'm feeling pretty positive about this because his lackeys, for the most part, have been slightly below me in level. Koga should be right up there and all he has is like a Weezing and uhhh...I dunno. Not like it matters, Sludge Bomb doesn't exist and Sludge is dumb. I actually think his Weezing knows Tackle. What's the worst that could happen?
VS KOGA
Koga sent out Venonat!
*record scratch* OH MY GOD THIS IS YELLOW. OH GOD IT'S LEVEL 44.
I started to panic at this point. I can't remember what else is on his team, but I don't care at the moment because his weakest Pokemon is 4 levels higher than my strongest Pokemon. I lead with Takeshi because she's the lowest level I have. I zap him with Thunderbolt and it's like a 3-4hko. Meanwhile he retaliates with Sleep Powder and I go to bed. I wake her up using a Full Heal (forgot I even had the Poke Flute). He uses Psychic and, of course, it's a 2hko. I realize Bug is weak to Flying and switch in Fudge to take the attack. I wind up getting in scot free as he whiffs a Supersonic and using Fly to OHKO.
Koga sent out Venonat!
I see it's level 46 and cringe. I remember this team now and I know what devil awaits me at the end. I seriously start to think I'm going to lose this battle.
I outspeed this Venonat (and the next one) and OHKO with Fly.
Koga sent out Venomoth!
And here's where the battle goes downhill. At level 50, Venomoth outspeeds my whole team by a mile. Koga's mad that I made such short work of his first three guys that he uses his ninja powers to force a critical hit Psychic, which kills Fudge in one hit. Honestly, I'm not sure if it would have OHKOed (considering Psychic doesn't OHKO anyone else except probably Samantha, I doubt it), but there went my best shot at victory. I wonder what to do here. I figure Takeshi is most expendable since I don't want to pull another Chuck and lose Twilight right after I freakin' get her, so out she goes.
After eating a Psychic, I hit with Thunderbolt and that is probably like a 6hko. This isn't gonna work. I have to run. I don't know who else to go to. Samantha is out of the question. I really don't want to use Twilight yet even though she stands the best chance of beating Venomoth now. I figure Blastoise is pretty bulky, right? I send out Xander and Psychic is a 3hko on him, which is pretty nice. Unfortunately my Surfs are only doing a little less than a quarter on him, and he hits me with Toxic so that's no good. I try to stall with healing but the toxic poison starts taking its toll. At one point it knocks me down to about no life so I go to Twilight. I get nailed with Psychic and whiff Fire Spin, which was probably the absolute worst possible scenario.
After some more healing (and running out of Hyper Potions) I manage to land an Ember (even after a Double Team) and seal the victory. That was too close...
Now that my bird is dead I go get Pidgey from the box. I teach her fly, and head to Lavender Town to name her. I named her Crystal, and if you can't figure out why, you are a noob.
All right so I got my new sexy birdy and I'm pumped to get started. I don't really know where to take her so I figure I'll kill off some wild Pokemon. First thing I do is teach her Double-Edge, because it's a bamf move and it's stronger than Gust. I do this and get Crystal to level 28 and she starts holding her own. I don't know where else to train her so I figure I might as well progress; I fly to Fuchsia. I fight a trainer south of Fuchsia who has a Shellder. Long has this Pokemon been nothing more than free exp because all it knows is Tackle and Supersonic and dumb crap like this. Even at level 30, it is not a challenge:
Crystal flew up high!
Enemy SHELLDER used AURORA BEAM!
Enemy SHELLDER's attack missed!
Oh dear sweet baby jesus that is definitely not tackle. CRYSTAL OH GOD MY BIRD NOT AGAIN. PLEASE SHELLDER DO LIKE TACKLE NEXT TURN PLEASE
Crystal used FLY! (more like tickle)
Enemy SHELLDER used AURORA BEAM!
Critical hit!
It's super effective!
Crystal fainted!
*inhales*
He shall pay for his sin. He is on the receiving end of all of Takeshi's rage and succumbs to a wicked Thunderbolt. Shellder's blackened corpse is melded with the sand below her feet, and with a swipe of her tail, the charred remains are scattered on the Fuchsia breeze.
After this battle it's time to do some contemplating. My second bird just died, right along with my Double-Edge TM. I have no one who can use Fly since I've been releasing my Pokemon the second they die. I do a mental run through the Pokedex. Spearow? Dead. Pidgey? Dead. Doduo? PASSED ON IT EARLIER, buck me. Great. Seafoam Islands are RIGHT OVER THERE but since I have disallowed the use of legendaries, Articuno is out of the question (which is a shame, because Articuno is awesome).
I start to figure that I will be hoofing it for the rest of the game. I go back, heal the remains of my party, and head south to Route SouthOfFuchsia. Takeshi and Samantha double team all the Pokemon there and I run out of Thunderbolt and Mega Drain shortly before I make landfall. I realize that I've come the wrong freakin' way and I have to go south of Pallet Town if I wanna make it to Cinnabar Island so I can progress.
Well, as long as I'm here, I might as well go into Seafoam Islands and see what my newest potential teammate is. Krabby? Okay, he'll do. I instruct Twilight to stomp on him. Regretfully, the mare knows not her own strength, for she felled the unsuspecting crab with a single blow.
So much for that. Time to go. Then I think, wait a second. Pallet Town to Cerulean City is a one-way street. Am... am I done? Is my challenge over?
Reality starts setting in. This can't be the end. There has to be someone out there that can fly. Farfetch'd? That would work but I can't get a Spearow anywhere because it isn't on any of the routes I visited. Then it hits me.
Diglett's Cave.
Of course! How could I have forgotten?
With renewed purpose, I surf from Seafoam Islands to Fuchsia City and then bike all the way back to Viridian City (like a boss). While I'm there, I remember that the path to Victory Road has tall grass. I make it all the way to the Marsh Badge checkpoint (incidentally, the one RIGHT BEFORE the tall grass), and since I don't have the Marsh Badge, I get blocked. Oh well. Back in Viridian City I swim in the water and hope that I might find something, but don't. I don't bother fishing because I have 80 bazillion water types at my disposal (because I have the Super Rod).
I head back to Pallet Town and see the grass. I'm like, okay, I'll get a Tangela here. I don't need it, but someone wants one if I recall correctly. I may be able to trade it later on. As I mosey in the grass, I run into something completely unexpected, something that most definitely isn't Tangela:
ANOTHER FREAKIN' PIDGEY
OH MY GOD THIS IS YELLOW, 100% TANGELA IS GEN 3 ONLY
And because it's level 16 and not level 2, I know I'm on a different route--one I've never been on before--so this is perfectly legal, baby! I chuck a Great Ball and she's mine. Her name is Renee, and she is my baby. I take no chances with her. Here's a great example of me not taking any chances with her. First place I took her was east of Fuchsia, where I ran into that Bellsprout earlier. Well, I figure, Bellsprout's gonna do what, Vine Whip? Easy exp. First encounter is a Venonat and I don't risk it. I switch to Twilight and it launches a pathetic Confusion. Venonat pays dearly for its mistake and Twilight surrounds the poor bug in a fiery inferno that scorches it to death. When the flames recede, nothing is left. Okay, Bellsprout time? Nope, it's Oddish. Even easier, right? Level 28, filled to the brim with powders and Absorb. Cake fight!
Renee flew up high!
Wild ODDISH used ACID!
Wild ODDISH's attack missed!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOT AGAIN WHY GOD WHY
Renee used FLY!
Wild ODDISH used POISONPOWDER!
shh shh
Renee was poisoned!
THANK GOD. RENEE GET BACK IN THIS BALL I AM SO SORRY BABY FORGIVE ME
Twilight, who has adopted Renee as a daughter, is in full-on rage mode and subjects the hapless Oddish to the fire tornado, incinerating it slowly and painfully.
Okay so this isn't working. I Full Heal Renee INSTANTLY and figure I will go do what really should be free exp: Pokemon Tower. I'm going to do the same thing with her that I planned on doing with Clyde: abusing the purified zone for fast healing, while at the same time whoring out Renee's immunity to Ghost. All they can do is Lick and Night Shade, neither of which will hurt me, leaving only the odd Confuse Ray to do any real damage (to myself).
I flew to Lavender Town to pick up the Silph Scope, and it was at that moment that I was looking at the map that I realized that I have to go Saffron City next and not Cinnabar Island - derp. As I walked up the tower, I could tell the Gastly REALLY didn't want me there. Encounters were ridiculously high and Renee couldn't take them on by herself. Big brother Xander held her hand, using Water Gun on those mean old ghosts until we got to the third floor.
Once there, I subjected Renee to her first real fight against a Gastly, just to test the waters. At level 17 she is still weak, but what are they gonna do to me?
Wild GASTLY used NIGHT SHADE!
*it hits*
Renee flew up high!
oh dear. Well, looks like Night Shade hits Normal-types in gen 1. She doesn't have enough HP to survive two Night Shades yet, but the fact that she's going second means I can take a hit, avoid the second, and land a hit in at the end of the second turn. Then I can heal her and hope they use Lick (which does not hit Normal-types in gen 1), giving me a free turn to Fly.
Using this strategy, I manage to get Renee to level 18, and she evolves. With this evolution she gets a big boost in HP, enough to survive two Night Shades, and of course the added power and speed still helps. I'm still going second, though. Confuse Ray is extra-strength annoying, as usual, but I am still able to use this strategy effectively. By level 21, I start to outspeed them, meaning I only have to avoid Confuse Ray to secure the 2hko (unless I MISS, LOLOLOLOL) At level 26, I've started OHKOing the weaker Gastly. Things are looking really good. Not sure where I'll go from here. Maybe back to Route EastOfFuchsia to teach the families of the Pokemon who bullied Renee a thing or two about the arts of aerial combat.
I'm not moving on until Renee is level 40. Total babying. No chances. I will see my birdy all grown up and she will feast upon her opponents' remains (loudly).
PMJ'S MID-GAME REPORT
Nuzlocke challenges are fun. I have seriously never cared about my Pokemon before playing this. Never before would I have considered switching my Pokemon out of certain death (Crystal vs. Shellder). Oh, he has Aurora Beam now. That sucks. /use Revive.
Now you have to be extra careful because you never know when your teammate could be gone forever. I love this style. I think I'll try one of Ruby next.
I was seriously saddened when Fudge died. He was with me since the beginning and losing him was a huge blow to my team and my morale. I have never been this upset over my Pokemon getting KOed, lol. We will miss him. rip fudge
So anyway, I figure I'd take this time to give you all an in-depth look of my team so you have an idea of how I run things. They are a big family and they all take care of each other.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L39
- Thunderbolt
- Slam
- Flash
- Quick Attack
Though Takeshi is my oldest Pokemon, she seems like the youngest member because she is the only one who will never evolve from her basic stage. This, of course, means she is tremendously frail and as the game moves forward I fear she will end up getting taken out by a powerful move after just missing the KO on something. I'm so afraid to lose her that she pretty much only fights things she can hit for double damage.
Samantha L39
- Mega Drain
- Acid
- Cut
- Sleep Powder
Samantha is my go-to for things that _really_ give me trouble (unless they're called Hypno. seriously, buck Hypno). Sleep is broken in gen 1 and it has saved her life numerous times. The only issue is that Samantha is a slug and usually has to take a hit before she incapacitates something, but once she does, they're out for the count.
Xander L38
- Surf
- Strength
- Water Gun
- BubbleBeam
Xander is by far the bulkiest Pokemon on my team and serves acts like a big brother to everyone else. Xander can take on everyone Samantha can't handle and then some. I have three water moves to pay homage to the days when that's what we as newbs did. I know I ran three fire moves on Charizard back in the day "just in case I run out of PP" so that's what I'm doing here. Twenty years later, here I am. I will probably wind up using Ice Beam on him once I get to the League just because I'll need him to take on Lance's dragons.
Twilight L41
- Ember
- Stomp
- Body Slam
- Fire Spin
I leveled Twilight up quickly. I caught and evolved her before I gave everyone else even a couple levels' worth of training, and that's just because I wanted a Rapidash. Body Slam is a recent addition because it rocks and it isn't Tail Whip. Fire Spin is actually the move I use most on her because, like a lot of crap in gen 1, it's broken if you go first (which she usually does). I'm not sure if she ever learns Flamethrower naturally but once I get Fire Blast from Blaine it will probably go to her.
Renee L26
- Fly
- Gust
- Sand-Attack
- Quick Attack
The newest addition to my team. I pretty much said everything there is to say above; she's the baby of the team and my last hope at flying, so I have to protect her.
Man this is fun.
Crystal flew up high!
Enemy SHELLDER used AURORA BEAM!
Enemy SHELLDER's attack missed!
Oh dear sweet baby jesus that is definitely not tackle. CRYSTAL OH GOD MY BIRD NOT AGAIN. PLEASE SHELLDER DO LIKE TACKLE NEXT TURN PLEASE
Crystal used FLY! (more like tickle)
Enemy SHELLDER used AURORA BEAM!
Critical hit!
It's super effective!
Crystal fainted!
*inhales*
He shall pay for his sin. He is on the receiving end of all of Takeshi's rage and succumbs to a wicked Thunderbolt. Shellder's blackened corpse is melded with the sand below her feet, and with a swipe of her tail, the charred remains are scattered on the Fuchsia breeze.
After this battle it's time to do some contemplating. My second bird just died, right along with my Double-Edge TM. I have no one who can use Fly since I've been releasing my Pokemon the second they die. I do a mental run through the Pokedex. Spearow? Dead. Pidgey? Dead. Doduo? PASSED ON IT EARLIER, buck me. Great. Seafoam Islands are RIGHT OVER THERE but since I have disallowed the use of legendaries, Articuno is out of the question (which is a shame, because Articuno is awesome).
I start to figure that I will be hoofing it for the rest of the game. I go back, heal the remains of my party, and head south to Route SouthOfFuchsia. Takeshi and Samantha double team all the Pokemon there and I run out of Thunderbolt and Mega Drain shortly before I make landfall. I realize that I've come the wrong freakin' way and I have to go south of Pallet Town if I wanna make it to Cinnabar Island so I can progress.
Well, as long as I'm here, I might as well go into Seafoam Islands and see what my newest potential teammate is. Krabby? Okay, he'll do. I instruct Twilight to stomp on him. Regretfully, the mare knows not her own strength, for she felled the unsuspecting crab with a single blow.
So much for that. Time to go. Then I think, wait a second. Pallet Town to Cerulean City is a one-way street. Am... am I done? Is my challenge over?
Reality starts setting in. This can't be the end. There has to be someone out there that can fly. Farfetch'd? That would work but I can't get a Spearow anywhere because it isn't on any of the routes I visited. Then it hits me.
Diglett's Cave.
Of course! How could I have forgotten?
With renewed purpose, I surf from Seafoam Islands to Fuchsia City and then bike all the way back to Viridian City (like a boss). While I'm there, I remember that the path to Victory Road has tall grass. I make it all the way to the Marsh Badge checkpoint (incidentally, the one RIGHT BEFORE the tall grass), and since I don't have the Marsh Badge, I get blocked. Oh well. Back in Viridian City I swim in the water and hope that I might find something, but don't. I don't bother fishing because I have 80 bazillion water types at my disposal (because I have the Super Rod).
I head back to Pallet Town and see the grass. I'm like, okay, I'll get a Tangela here. I don't need it, but someone wants one if I recall correctly. I may be able to trade it later on. As I mosey in the grass, I run into something completely unexpected, something that most definitely isn't Tangela:
ANOTHER FREAKIN' PIDGEY
OH MY GOD THIS IS YELLOW, 100% TANGELA IS GEN 3 ONLY
And because it's level 16 and not level 2, I know I'm on a different route--one I've never been on before--so this is perfectly legal, baby! I chuck a Great Ball and she's mine. Her name is Renee, and she is my baby. I take no chances with her. Here's a great example of me not taking any chances with her. First place I took her was east of Fuchsia, where I ran into that Bellsprout earlier. Well, I figure, Bellsprout's gonna do what, Vine Whip? Easy exp. First encounter is a Venonat and I don't risk it. I switch to Twilight and it launches a pathetic Confusion. Venonat pays dearly for its mistake and Twilight surrounds the poor bug in a fiery inferno that scorches it to death. When the flames recede, nothing is left. Okay, Bellsprout time? Nope, it's Oddish. Even easier, right? Level 28, filled to the brim with powders and Absorb. Cake fight!
Renee flew up high!
Wild ODDISH used ACID!
Wild ODDISH's attack missed!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOT AGAIN WHY GOD WHY
Renee used FLY!
Wild ODDISH used POISONPOWDER!
shh shh
Renee was poisoned!
THANK GOD. RENEE GET BACK IN THIS BALL I AM SO SORRY BABY FORGIVE ME
Twilight, who has adopted Renee as a daughter, is in full-on rage mode and subjects the hapless Oddish to the fire tornado, incinerating it slowly and painfully.
Okay so this isn't working. I Full Heal Renee INSTANTLY and figure I will go do what really should be free exp: Pokemon Tower. I'm going to do the same thing with her that I planned on doing with Clyde: abusing the purified zone for fast healing, while at the same time whoring out Renee's immunity to Ghost. All they can do is Lick and Night Shade, neither of which will hurt me, leaving only the odd Confuse Ray to do any real damage (to myself).
I flew to Lavender Town to pick up the Silph Scope, and it was at that moment that I was looking at the map that I realized that I have to go Saffron City next and not Cinnabar Island - derp. As I walked up the tower, I could tell the Gastly REALLY didn't want me there. Encounters were ridiculously high and Renee couldn't take them on by herself. Big brother Xander held her hand, using Water Gun on those mean old ghosts until we got to the third floor.
Once there, I subjected Renee to her first real fight against a Gastly, just to test the waters. At level 17 she is still weak, but what are they gonna do to me?
Wild GASTLY used NIGHT SHADE!
*it hits*
Renee flew up high!
oh dear. Well, looks like Night Shade hits Normal-types in gen 1. She doesn't have enough HP to survive two Night Shades yet, but the fact that she's going second means I can take a hit, avoid the second, and land a hit in at the end of the second turn. Then I can heal her and hope they use Lick (which does not hit Normal-types in gen 1), giving me a free turn to Fly.
Using this strategy, I manage to get Renee to level 18, and she evolves. With this evolution she gets a big boost in HP, enough to survive two Night Shades, and of course the added power and speed still helps. I'm still going second, though. Confuse Ray is extra-strength annoying, as usual, but I am still able to use this strategy effectively. By level 21, I start to outspeed them, meaning I only have to avoid Confuse Ray to secure the 2hko (unless I MISS, LOLOLOLOL) At level 26, I've started OHKOing the weaker Gastly. Things are looking really good. Not sure where I'll go from here. Maybe back to Route EastOfFuchsia to teach the families of the Pokemon who bullied Renee a thing or two about the arts of aerial combat.
I'm not moving on until Renee is level 40. Total babying. No chances. I will see my birdy all grown up and she will feast upon her opponents' remains (loudly).
PMJ'S MID-GAME REPORT
Nuzlocke challenges are fun. I have seriously never cared about my Pokemon before playing this. Never before would I have considered switching my Pokemon out of certain death (Crystal vs. Shellder). Oh, he has Aurora Beam now. That sucks. /use Revive.
Now you have to be extra careful because you never know when your teammate could be gone forever. I love this style. I think I'll try one of Ruby next.
I was seriously saddened when Fudge died. He was with me since the beginning and losing him was a huge blow to my team and my morale. I have never been this upset over my Pokemon getting KOed, lol. We will miss him. rip fudge
So anyway, I figure I'd take this time to give you all an in-depth look of my team so you have an idea of how I run things. They are a big family and they all take care of each other.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L39
- Thunderbolt
- Slam
- Flash
- Quick Attack
Though Takeshi is my oldest Pokemon, she seems like the youngest member because she is the only one who will never evolve from her basic stage. This, of course, means she is tremendously frail and as the game moves forward I fear she will end up getting taken out by a powerful move after just missing the KO on something. I'm so afraid to lose her that she pretty much only fights things she can hit for double damage.
Samantha L39
- Mega Drain
- Acid
- Cut
- Sleep Powder
Samantha is my go-to for things that _really_ give me trouble (unless they're called Hypno. seriously, buck Hypno). Sleep is broken in gen 1 and it has saved her life numerous times. The only issue is that Samantha is a slug and usually has to take a hit before she incapacitates something, but once she does, they're out for the count.
Xander L38
- Surf
- Strength
- Water Gun
- BubbleBeam
Xander is by far the bulkiest Pokemon on my team and serves acts like a big brother to everyone else. Xander can take on everyone Samantha can't handle and then some. I have three water moves to pay homage to the days when that's what we as newbs did. I know I ran three fire moves on Charizard back in the day "just in case I run out of PP" so that's what I'm doing here. Twenty years later, here I am. I will probably wind up using Ice Beam on him once I get to the League just because I'll need him to take on Lance's dragons.
Twilight L41
- Ember
- Stomp
- Body Slam
- Fire Spin
I leveled Twilight up quickly. I caught and evolved her before I gave everyone else even a couple levels' worth of training, and that's just because I wanted a Rapidash. Body Slam is a recent addition because it rocks and it isn't Tail Whip. Fire Spin is actually the move I use most on her because, like a lot of crap in gen 1, it's broken if you go first (which she usually does). I'm not sure if she ever learns Flamethrower naturally but once I get Fire Blast from Blaine it will probably go to her.
Renee L26
- Fly
- Gust
- Sand-Attack
- Quick Attack
The newest addition to my team. I pretty much said everything there is to say above; she's the baby of the team and my last hope at flying, so I have to protect her.
Man this is fun.
All right, so I'm a huge liar, although not completely so. I said I wasn't going to leave until Renee was level 40 but I decided to head out once she got to level 37 because I still have the Fighting Dojo to burn through and figure Renee can spread her very sexy big bird wings there in the form of sky raping everyone there.
So I do. Fighting Dojo Man is all shriek shriek, scream scream. He offers me one of his Pokemon. Pretty sure Hitmonlee is the only option here since Hitmonchan is jank until gen 4, but I leave them both anyway. I don't know what my problem is in choosing a sixth member, but I guess I just want it to be _perfect_. Or maybe I'll say screw everyone and go through life with 5 Pokemon. That's right, I might not use a full roster, wanna fight about it?
All right so after that's done I remember that I gotta cleanse Saffron City, so I heal up and head to Silph Co. First time I did this place back in like 1997, I got lost so hard because I stepped on like every teleporter I could. Once I finally got the Card Key it was all good though. Every time since then I have always done the same thing: Go up to floor 5, get the Card Key, clear out floor 2, go to floor 4 and wipe out everyone dumb enough to challenge me. Repeat on every floor up, elevator back to the third floor, erase Gary, maul Giovanni.
That was the plan this time but it didn't go quite as expected. First of all, I completely missed Selfdestruct when I was on floor 2 (again), so I had to go get it on my way out. It kinda ate at me as I was going up the tower, knowing that I'd missed it, because I'd have to go get it when I was done. "Well it's not like anypony can learn it," I said to myself. "And even if they could it's not like I could use it anyway. It's okay to leave it."
Of course it wasn't okay to leave it. Soon as I was done I marched right back down there and got it.
But I digress. I actually ran into Gary completely by mistake here because I would have sworn you had to unlock the door on 3F first before getting to the teleporter. I step on the one outside the door and I'm like hey this room looks familiar OH WAIT IT'S GARY DON'T STEP LEFT YOU HAVEN'T SAVED but of course my brain couldn't reach my fingers fast enough and Gary jumped me.
VS GARY
He has six Pokemon and he rubs that fact in my face. It does not matter because we are a family, a band of brothers and sisters who will overcome everything, especially your super lame Sandslash and its Poison Sting obsession.
So this battle was really nothing exciting other than the fact that I get to see what kind of Pokemon Gary will be using later. LAPRAS GET
I have no intentions of letting Xander die, but to not get Lapras would be a waste because if Xander should fall in battle, Lapras is going right on my team. She remains unnamed for now. I warp and I'm thinking "okay, time to go fight boss" and WHO SHOULD JUMP ME BUT TEAM ROCKET.
They are a thorn in my side. Apparently they are a thorn in Samantha's side, too, because as soon as she saw them she came out of her ball and ate them.
I was surprised, too. Who knew she enjoyed the taste of human flesh?
So much for them! I head into the meeting where Giovanni probably is propositioning the president for a night on the town (cause, y'know, he's a total homo) and of course I walk in and Giovanni's all sad. Samantha burps up a shoe and Giovanni knows his grunts have been eaten. He is mad and sends out his pokemon. Samantha eats them, too. She goes for Giovanni but he's like HOLY CRAP and leaves before she can consume him. The president says something to me about balls but I totally ignore him. I stash some loot in the PC and walk out, leaving the president to wonder what just happened.
I gotta go take on Sabrina next. After nearly losing to Koga, I'm a bit more wary about her Pokemon. I don't know what she has but going around her gym and taking on her lackeys I'm pretty sure she's got a Mr. Mime? His sprite looks familiar. All these guys' Pokemon are in the low 30s in level which of course means absolutely nothing. Koga uber trolled me, so hard I almost lost, and I am counting on Sabrina to do the same. I know she's got an Alakazam in there and if it's like level 54 or something, I'm done.
VS SABRINA
Three Pokemon. Sounds about right. What you got, hottie? An Abra? Level 50? Oh no. I remember now. God. This is gonna go downhill real fast.
I'm leading with Xander for this fight. I haven't been using him because I plan on using him to steamroll Blaine's gym and get him levels there. He's level 41 at this point, the lowest on my team.
Abra goes first and whiffs a Flash. Maybe it's trying to tell me what Sabrina would like to do to me. I wouldn't mind. Xander responds by picking up Abra and hurling it across the room. Its skull cracks upon impact with the wall, and it slumps over, dead. Next.
Kadabra. Level 50. Yeah, I know where this is going. No problem. He hits with Psywave for a whopping nine damage. I crit him with Surf for half his life. Sabrina decides to stop messing around and launches a strong Psychic that rips Xander's life bar up, doing almost 3/4. That is not reassuring at all; any crits from her and I lose a Pokemon. Surf doesn't crit so I need to hit him again before he goes down, but I have to heal up first. I do so and she uses Psywave for 50. I heal. Psychic. Hyper Potion. Psywave for eight damage YEAHHHH. I attack but she slips an X Defend in before Kadabra goes down.
Here it comes. Alakazam. Level 50.
Sabrina is like "oops, messed that one up" and decides to lead with an X Defend this time. I am thankful for the free damage and use Surf. It's like a 5hko. That's just great.
He does Psywave next and bombs it. I follow up with a Surf. Things are looking better. Might get out of this one relatively unscathed.
Psychic comes next and like Kadabra's it does a buttload. I hit with Surf. Two more and I got this bagged. But I gotta heal...
Hyper Potion. Psychic. Hyper Potion. Psychic. Hyper Potion. Then I saw the absolute four worst words I could have ever wanted to see in this fight:
Enemy Alakazam used Recover!
PANIC PANIC PANIC WHAT DO
STALL HIM OUT OF PSYCHIC. CRAP THEY HAVE INFINITE PP IN GEN 1 AHHHH.
Okay so let's just keep hitting him. Surely he won't use it that often. I get a free surf now since I'm at full health but first I have to eat Psychic. I am anxious every time I see Xander's life tick down because I'm afraid it's gonna deplete completely.
Psychic. Surf. Hyper Potion. Psywave for 68. Hyper Potion. ENEMY ALAKAZAM USED REFLECT
Psychic. Surf. Hyper Potion. Psywave for 10. Psywave for 68. Surf. A critical hit! Enemy Alakazam fainted!
Whew.
Get Psywave. Sell it immediately.
I fly back to Pallet Town and make my way to Cinnabar, using Takeshi as lead because she can kill stuff and I'm gonna want her level way up there so I can focus on everyone else later. I head into the lab and the lady's like "yo dawg you want dis Rhydon for Golduck?" I'm like you better believe I want that Rhydon but I have nowhere to get Golduck, let alone Psyduck. Anyway I head into the other room and this crazy scientist gives me Metronome aka Nuzlocke Russian Roulette. I was kinda pumped to use it because Metronome is always fun until I saw no one could learn it and realized what would happen if it copied Selfdestruct or Explosion.
A-welp.
Gotta go get the key so I head into the burned-out building (which is what we called it before we knew it was all "PoKeMoN mAnSiOn".
Kinda excited to be here since I know like Grimer and Muk are here. I could use another bulky mon like him and COME ON SHOW ME THE MUK:
nope. Growlithe. Well gee. Okay fine. Ironically, Twilight was my lead when I ran into it. I could feel them sizing each other up. Him determined to impress me and earn a spot on my team, her loling in her head and knowing that I will always like her more, even in death. Remembering what happened to the Krabby she murdered earlier, I order her to use Fire Spin. After five continuous attacks his HP is at a sufficient amount and I chuck a Great Ball for the capture. It has no name because I have no intention on using it. But you never know.
I actually ran into a Muk a little later, on the top floor. It made me sad. Still there right now.
THE TEAM SO FAR
Takeshi L45
Samantha L42
Xander L41
Twilight L43
Renee L44 (isn't she pretty? yay ^.^)
So I do. Fighting Dojo Man is all shriek shriek, scream scream. He offers me one of his Pokemon. Pretty sure Hitmonlee is the only option here since Hitmonchan is jank until gen 4, but I leave them both anyway. I don't know what my problem is in choosing a sixth member, but I guess I just want it to be _perfect_. Or maybe I'll say screw everyone and go through life with 5 Pokemon. That's right, I might not use a full roster, wanna fight about it?
All right so after that's done I remember that I gotta cleanse Saffron City, so I heal up and head to Silph Co. First time I did this place back in like 1997, I got lost so hard because I stepped on like every teleporter I could. Once I finally got the Card Key it was all good though. Every time since then I have always done the same thing: Go up to floor 5, get the Card Key, clear out floor 2, go to floor 4 and wipe out everyone dumb enough to challenge me. Repeat on every floor up, elevator back to the third floor, erase Gary, maul Giovanni.
That was the plan this time but it didn't go quite as expected. First of all, I completely missed Selfdestruct when I was on floor 2 (again), so I had to go get it on my way out. It kinda ate at me as I was going up the tower, knowing that I'd missed it, because I'd have to go get it when I was done. "Well it's not like anypony can learn it," I said to myself. "And even if they could it's not like I could use it anyway. It's okay to leave it."
Of course it wasn't okay to leave it. Soon as I was done I marched right back down there and got it.
But I digress. I actually ran into Gary completely by mistake here because I would have sworn you had to unlock the door on 3F first before getting to the teleporter. I step on the one outside the door and I'm like hey this room looks familiar OH WAIT IT'S GARY DON'T STEP LEFT YOU HAVEN'T SAVED but of course my brain couldn't reach my fingers fast enough and Gary jumped me.
VS GARY
He has six Pokemon and he rubs that fact in my face. It does not matter because we are a family, a band of brothers and sisters who will overcome everything, especially your super lame Sandslash and its Poison Sting obsession.
So this battle was really nothing exciting other than the fact that I get to see what kind of Pokemon Gary will be using later. LAPRAS GET
I have no intentions of letting Xander die, but to not get Lapras would be a waste because if Xander should fall in battle, Lapras is going right on my team. She remains unnamed for now. I warp and I'm thinking "okay, time to go fight boss" and WHO SHOULD JUMP ME BUT TEAM ROCKET.
They are a thorn in my side. Apparently they are a thorn in Samantha's side, too, because as soon as she saw them she came out of her ball and ate them.
I was surprised, too. Who knew she enjoyed the taste of human flesh?
So much for them! I head into the meeting where Giovanni probably is propositioning the president for a night on the town (cause, y'know, he's a total homo) and of course I walk in and Giovanni's all sad. Samantha burps up a shoe and Giovanni knows his grunts have been eaten. He is mad and sends out his pokemon. Samantha eats them, too. She goes for Giovanni but he's like HOLY CRAP and leaves before she can consume him. The president says something to me about balls but I totally ignore him. I stash some loot in the PC and walk out, leaving the president to wonder what just happened.
I gotta go take on Sabrina next. After nearly losing to Koga, I'm a bit more wary about her Pokemon. I don't know what she has but going around her gym and taking on her lackeys I'm pretty sure she's got a Mr. Mime? His sprite looks familiar. All these guys' Pokemon are in the low 30s in level which of course means absolutely nothing. Koga uber trolled me, so hard I almost lost, and I am counting on Sabrina to do the same. I know she's got an Alakazam in there and if it's like level 54 or something, I'm done.
VS SABRINA
Three Pokemon. Sounds about right. What you got, hottie? An Abra? Level 50? Oh no. I remember now. God. This is gonna go downhill real fast.
I'm leading with Xander for this fight. I haven't been using him because I plan on using him to steamroll Blaine's gym and get him levels there. He's level 41 at this point, the lowest on my team.
Abra goes first and whiffs a Flash. Maybe it's trying to tell me what Sabrina would like to do to me. I wouldn't mind. Xander responds by picking up Abra and hurling it across the room. Its skull cracks upon impact with the wall, and it slumps over, dead. Next.
Kadabra. Level 50. Yeah, I know where this is going. No problem. He hits with Psywave for a whopping nine damage. I crit him with Surf for half his life. Sabrina decides to stop messing around and launches a strong Psychic that rips Xander's life bar up, doing almost 3/4. That is not reassuring at all; any crits from her and I lose a Pokemon. Surf doesn't crit so I need to hit him again before he goes down, but I have to heal up first. I do so and she uses Psywave for 50. I heal. Psychic. Hyper Potion. Psywave for eight damage YEAHHHH. I attack but she slips an X Defend in before Kadabra goes down.
Here it comes. Alakazam. Level 50.
Sabrina is like "oops, messed that one up" and decides to lead with an X Defend this time. I am thankful for the free damage and use Surf. It's like a 5hko. That's just great.
He does Psywave next and bombs it. I follow up with a Surf. Things are looking better. Might get out of this one relatively unscathed.
Psychic comes next and like Kadabra's it does a buttload. I hit with Surf. Two more and I got this bagged. But I gotta heal...
Hyper Potion. Psychic. Hyper Potion. Psychic. Hyper Potion. Then I saw the absolute four worst words I could have ever wanted to see in this fight:
Enemy Alakazam used Recover!
PANIC PANIC PANIC WHAT DO
STALL HIM OUT OF PSYCHIC. CRAP THEY HAVE INFINITE PP IN GEN 1 AHHHH.
Okay so let's just keep hitting him. Surely he won't use it that often. I get a free surf now since I'm at full health but first I have to eat Psychic. I am anxious every time I see Xander's life tick down because I'm afraid it's gonna deplete completely.
Psychic. Surf. Hyper Potion. Psywave for 68. Hyper Potion. ENEMY ALAKAZAM USED REFLECT
Psychic. Surf. Hyper Potion. Psywave for 10. Psywave for 68. Surf. A critical hit! Enemy Alakazam fainted!
Whew.
Get Psywave. Sell it immediately.
I fly back to Pallet Town and make my way to Cinnabar, using Takeshi as lead because she can kill stuff and I'm gonna want her level way up there so I can focus on everyone else later. I head into the lab and the lady's like "yo dawg you want dis Rhydon for Golduck?" I'm like you better believe I want that Rhydon but I have nowhere to get Golduck, let alone Psyduck. Anyway I head into the other room and this crazy scientist gives me Metronome aka Nuzlocke Russian Roulette. I was kinda pumped to use it because Metronome is always fun until I saw no one could learn it and realized what would happen if it copied Selfdestruct or Explosion.
A-welp.
Gotta go get the key so I head into the burned-out building (which is what we called it before we knew it was all "PoKeMoN mAnSiOn".
Kinda excited to be here since I know like Grimer and Muk are here. I could use another bulky mon like him and COME ON SHOW ME THE MUK:
nope. Growlithe. Well gee. Okay fine. Ironically, Twilight was my lead when I ran into it. I could feel them sizing each other up. Him determined to impress me and earn a spot on my team, her loling in her head and knowing that I will always like her more, even in death. Remembering what happened to the Krabby she murdered earlier, I order her to use Fire Spin. After five continuous attacks his HP is at a sufficient amount and I chuck a Great Ball for the capture. It has no name because I have no intention on using it. But you never know.
I actually ran into a Muk a little later, on the top floor. It made me sad. Still there right now.
THE TEAM SO FAR
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