It has come to my fascination about the infamous self-imposed challenges the pokemon community has to offer. One that caught my eye particularly was the monotype challenge. Now, my Platinum save can easily be destroyed for this challenge (i really don't care about it) and I would like to use it in this scenario.
So, this is my question that I ask all of you:
What type should I play with?
I was thinking a steel-type run, as I could get steel types conveniently without mashing buttons in a cave for 100 years. Since I can get a starter into steel reasonably fast, I think I may be on the right pathway for a monotype run.
I'd be fine with any type of pokemon, as long as they do not take countless hours of farming to obtain/level, for example, dragon-type.
I'm not sure if this counts as "advertising" or whatever, but if you want a lot more Pokémon players looking at your challenge, I suggest posting this onto www.marriland.com
Then, you select Forum, and then Pokémon Challenges. The Marriland Forums is an awesome place, and Marriland himself is pretty cool too.
Would you include HM slaves? It would be quite hard with, say, Steel Type to get Surf.
HM slaves are just any type, but ONLY for slaving work to finish the game. The goal of my challenge is to beat the elite 4, and after that, I do whatever.
To make this more simple for you guys to understand, I'm going to outline the rules I am making.
1. Set battle type at ALL times. No excuses.
2. The type I choose is the type I get.
-If my pokemon evolve into the type, I may use them anyways even if they aren't the type already.
-HM slaves are allowed, but ONLY for getting to places needed to beat the game.
3. I may NOT trade unless I severely need it for evolving purposes. (Scyther-Scizor, for example)\
There. Just the rules I can think of off the top of my head.
In that case, Ground sounds like it would be interesting. Turtwig gets Ground eventually, and you'd be stuck with fairly meh pokemon until you reach the very late game with Rhyperior and such.
This isn't strictly related to the topic, but a backup challenge could be Nuzlocke runs. In Nuzlocke, the name of this game is to have a greater emotional attachment to your Pokemon.
If you don't know what these are here are the two essentials:
>you can only catch the first Pokemon of every route
>if a Pokemon faints you must release them.
Some other rules you could apply:
You must nickname all Pokemon
You can only have X Pokemon in total
No healing items
No Pokemon centers
Etc, etc., etc...
Of course, if this doesn't appeal to you or you already knew about it, it could help someone else who wanted to do a challenge run.
OT, I would suggest normal type runs. They can learn all HMs, IIRC, and can be tough to work with, seeing as they are super effective against nothing. In general they are a sub-par type, but they can learn some cool moves end game like hyper beam or giga impact.
This isn't strictly related to the topic, but a backup challenge could be Nuzlocke runs. In Nuzlocke, the name of this game is to have a greater emotional attachment to your Pokemon.
If you don't know what these are here are the two essentials:
>you can only catch the first Pokemon of every route
>if a Pokemon faints you must release them.
Some other rules you could apply:
You must nickname all Pokemon
You can only have X Pokemon in total
No healing items
No Pokemon centers
Etc, etc., etc...
Of course, if this doesn't appeal to you or you already knew about it, it could help someone else who wanted to do a challenge run.
OT, I would suggest normal type runs. They can learn all HMs, IIRC, and can be tough to work with, seeing as they are super effective against nothing. In general they are a sub-par type, but they can learn some cool moves end game like hyper beam or giga impact.
I'm quite aware of nuzlocke. Maybe soulsilver could get a stab at that.
In that case, Ground sounds like it would be interesting. Turtwig gets Ground eventually, and you'd be stuck with fairly meh pokemon until you reach the very late game with Rhyperior and such.
Heh, today me and my friends started the challenge. I chose steel, and my buds chose fighting and ground. Oddly, we just chose the secondary type of the starters (which I didn't intend to happen).
Should I keep a log? I'm sure it will keep you guys occupied. I don't think it will be often that I can update, but I can get you guys a glimpse of what is happening so far.
I arrive at eterna city (so yeah, nothing special before that except tutorials and grinding) and I heal up only to head straight to Mt. Coronet to catch me a bronzor. I do, and it is a level 14. Since my naming scheme is Team Liquid, I name him Jaedong. After catching him, I noticed that I could use it against Gardenia's Roserade. Since my weak Prinplup (Taeja) can't stand to grass without pluck, I need my bronzor to buff up to take on the leader. So, after grinding 6 levels (and extrasensory), I think I am pretty good for Gardenia.
What it was:
Bronzor (Jaedong) Level 20: Extrasensory, imprison, confuse ray, hypnosis
Prinplup (Taeja) Level 26: Metal claw, growl, bubblebeam, pluck
SLAVE (meant for rocksmash and cut)
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SO! Time to face the leader and dish out some carnage. The first thing she sends out is a turtwig, and I hope for the crit from prinplup, only to get it down to 1/4 hp. It sends up the suicide reflect, all for cherrim to enjoy. Cherrim sends 2x magical leaves at Taeja, leaving about 3 hp left on him to my suprise. It was a cost for Gardenia, too. She had just enough health to lose her cherrim, which I saw an open opportunity to kill it. The cherrim is very fast and swipes my prinplup. Bronzor goes out and to my suprise cherrim goes leech seed mode, only to miss. The extrasensory kills it fast. Last is my worry. Roserade. I set up confusion to throw off roserade. She gets a grass knot off twice, getting bronzor to dangerously low health, but hits herself twice in a row after. So far, I used 4x extrasensory on her. Her roserade is at a sliver of health, but enough to be healed by gardenia. I take the opportunity as well. I retry my strategy, but go for hypnosis. She sends a magical leaf my way, but I shrug it off. As she gets caught sleeping, I spam extrasensory, 1 crit and 2 regular hits. Roserade goes down on the crit. I limp out of the gym, badge in hand.
Taeja gains a level, Jaedong misses the level by a slit of XP. I am proceeding to cut up people at Galactic Eterna.
So, I went to the underground and spammed forever for an armor fossil. I ripped one out of the wall and nailed the guy behind the desk in the head. He ushered me outside and dragged me back in. I saw a cute little guy that looked like IdrA. So, his name is Idra. After taking him out for a spin, he is a wall of annoying. He has no special moves but he has metal sound. What?
I am at mount coronet as of now. I really did not get far in these last few days.
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The team
It has come to my fascination about the infamous self-imposed challenges the pokemon community has to offer. One that caught my eye particularly was the monotype challenge. Now, my Platinum save can easily be destroyed for this challenge (i really don't care about it) and I would like to use it in this scenario.
So, this is my question that I ask all of you:
What type should I play with?
I was thinking a steel-type run, as I could get steel types conveniently without mashing buttons in a cave for 100 years. Since I can get a starter into steel reasonably fast, I think I may be on the right pathway for a monotype run.
I'd be fine with any type of pokemon, as long as they do not take countless hours of farming to obtain/level, for example, dragon-type.
Suggest away!
If so, what type may you suggest? I'd like to have some feedback.
~ Wookeh ~
Then, you select Forum, and then Pokémon Challenges. The Marriland Forums is an awesome place, and Marriland himself is pretty cool too.
But I thought I was 0% noob :'(…
HM slaves are just any type, but ONLY for slaving work to finish the game. The goal of my challenge is to beat the elite 4, and after that, I do whatever.
1. Set battle type at ALL times. No excuses.
2. The type I choose is the type I get.
-If my pokemon evolve into the type, I may use them anyways even if they aren't the type already.
-HM slaves are allowed, but ONLY for getting to places needed to beat the game.
3. I may NOT trade unless I severely need it for evolving purposes. (Scyther-Scizor, for example)\
There. Just the rules I can think of off the top of my head.
If you don't know what these are here are the two essentials:
>you can only catch the first Pokemon of every route
>if a Pokemon faints you must release them.
Some other rules you could apply:
You must nickname all Pokemon
You can only have X Pokemon in total
No healing items
No Pokemon centers
Etc, etc., etc...
Of course, if this doesn't appeal to you or you already knew about it, it could help someone else who wanted to do a challenge run.
OT, I would suggest normal type runs. They can learn all HMs, IIRC, and can be tough to work with, seeing as they are super effective against nothing. In general they are a sub-par type, but they can learn some cool moves end game like hyper beam or giga impact.
I'm quite aware of nuzlocke. Maybe soulsilver could get a stab at that. Heh, today me and my friends started the challenge. I chose steel, and my buds chose fighting and ground. Oddly, we just chose the secondary type of the starters (which I didn't intend to happen).
Should I keep a log? I'm sure it will keep you guys occupied. I don't think it will be often that I can update, but I can get you guys a glimpse of what is happening so far.
PART 1 (should be at least 5 by now)
I arrive at eterna city (so yeah, nothing special before that except tutorials and grinding) and I heal up only to head straight to Mt. Coronet to catch me a bronzor. I do, and it is a level 14. Since my naming scheme is Team Liquid, I name him Jaedong. After catching him, I noticed that I could use it against Gardenia's Roserade. Since my weak Prinplup (Taeja) can't stand to grass without pluck, I need my bronzor to buff up to take on the leader. So, after grinding 6 levels (and extrasensory), I think I am pretty good for Gardenia.
What it was:
Bronzor (Jaedong) Level 20: Extrasensory, imprison, confuse ray, hypnosis
Prinplup (Taeja) Level 26: Metal claw, growl, bubblebeam, pluck
SLAVE (meant for rocksmash and cut)
_________________________________________________
SO! Time to face the leader and dish out some carnage. The first thing she sends out is a turtwig, and I hope for the crit from prinplup, only to get it down to 1/4 hp. It sends up the suicide reflect, all for cherrim to enjoy. Cherrim sends 2x magical leaves at Taeja, leaving about 3 hp left on him to my suprise. It was a cost for Gardenia, too. She had just enough health to lose her cherrim, which I saw an open opportunity to kill it. The cherrim is very fast and swipes my prinplup. Bronzor goes out and to my suprise cherrim goes leech seed mode, only to miss. The extrasensory kills it fast. Last is my worry. Roserade. I set up confusion to throw off roserade. She gets a grass knot off twice, getting bronzor to dangerously low health, but hits herself twice in a row after. So far, I used 4x extrasensory on her. Her roserade is at a sliver of health, but enough to be healed by gardenia. I take the opportunity as well. I retry my strategy, but go for hypnosis. She sends a magical leaf my way, but I shrug it off. As she gets caught sleeping, I spam extrasensory, 1 crit and 2 regular hits. Roserade goes down on the crit. I limp out of the gym, badge in hand.
Taeja gains a level, Jaedong misses the level by a slit of XP. I am proceeding to cut up people at Galactic Eterna.
So, I went to the underground and spammed forever for an armor fossil. I ripped one out of the wall and nailed the guy behind the desk in the head. He ushered me outside and dragged me back in. I saw a cute little guy that looked like IdrA. So, his name is Idra. After taking him out for a spin, he is a wall of annoying. He has no special moves but he has metal sound. What?
I am at mount coronet as of now. I really did not get far in these last few days.
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The team
Bronzor (Jaedong) Level 21: Extrasensory, imprison, confuse ray, hypnosis
Prinplup (Taeja) Level 26: Metal claw, growl, bubblebeam, pluck
(NEW) (Idra) Level 20: Metal sound, take down, iron defense, taunt
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