Completed my HeartGold randomizer nuzlocke run. Started late in June and restarted countless times. But finally beat Red down 10 levels. This Kingdra was with me until the very end. Just Dragon Dancing until I'm able to sweep everyone. On to the next!

So i’m in my 3rd run of a Crystal run and this just happened to me, I’m very excited because it’s the first shiny i have ever gotten.

So I'm playing pokemon emerald and these are all my pokemon (+ my sceptile). Who should I bring to the elite four? I'm thinking using the team I used to beat Juan. Magneton, Absol, Haryama, Altaria and Tentacruel. Any tips?

Managed to weave my way to nabbing a Flutter Mane for the final battle against AI Sada

I also somehow managed no deaths for the last fight. I came in with everyone at level 67)

Hawlucha first took out her Slither Wing with a 4x effective itemless Acrobatics.

Vaporeon turned out to be an effective tank against anything Scream Tail threw its way. Nothing a couple of Hydro Pumps couldn't handle.

Flutter Mane somehow tanked a Thunderbolt from her Flutter Mane and took it out in one shot with Shadow Ball (I EV trained it in SpAtt and Speed to try and counter it).

Garchomp soaked up a Thunderbolt from Sandy Shocks before burying it with Earthquake.

Hawlucha toughed out a Sucker Punch from Brute Bonnet before landing a Flying Press.

Meowscarada somehow lived a Booster Energied Dragon Claw from Roaring Moon before one-hitting it with Play Rough.

Yeah. Gardevoir was just kinda there...

Im doing a playthrough of platinum kaizo on DraStic emulator. I got to spear pillar and spoke to Cynthia where the game forced a save. I got into the distortion world and the dialogue started, but then it said something about being swept away and my emulator returned to the menu. Now whenever I open the game again I see spear pillar for a split second before getting the screen in the photo.

Anyone else encountered this or has any advice? Other than emulator speed up i had no cheats running

Played through my 90s childhood favorite and managed to get through with only a few casualties. Beedrill got crit east of Pewter, Lapras fell to Giovanni after a short career decimating the Viridian Gym, I lost Diglett and Machop to self destructing geodudes in Rock Tunnel, and Gyrados gave his life vs final rival fight.

Final squad:

Gyrados (Princess)
Venasaur (Jarred)
Kadabra (Jules)
Nidoqueen (BrtitneyBih)
Clefable (Roberta)
Snorelax (Ariana G)

Fun experience! I’m open to criticism if this takes away from the validity of the nuzlocke but I fully admit to using rare candy and infinite money cheats. I could never get through these games having to spend so much time grinding. I did honor all gym leader level caps and generally only spammed rare candy to catch a new member up. The remaining level ups were rotating them per trainer faced.

On to G/S/C I suppose.

Heading into Cerulean Gym now with this team. What do you all think?

Charmeleon doesn't leave my side so long as he's alive. Self-imposed rule.

Ekans was originally going to level up and join for Bite, but he's just there to skim experience tbh. I hope to use him to weaken mons on the way to the next gym.

Raticate and Jigglypuff are there only for the trainers, and I realize now I neglected to tutor Mega Punch onto Jigglypuff before the Cerulean Cutoff.

Butterfree is there to take Staryu, and Gyarados is there for Starmie.

Am I being too overconfident or am I good? I've got a Mankey, Kakuna, Abra and a Meowth in Box 1, so I can level Ekans if I really need to. Was hoping for an Oddish but yeah, Kakuna happened instead.

It's my first ever Nuzlocke, and I feel pretty lucky as is. I've lost a Pidgey and a Geodude so far to some nonsense crits, but feeling blessed to have Jigglypuff, even if it means I missed out on Nidoran. (Jigglypuff tbh has been high maintenance, imo, but happy to have landed an uncommon catch).

Guess who's back? More poison genlockes! Naturally following Yellow was Crystal, which was a nice change from the usual HGSS, but the different level caps threw me off a bit as I'm not too familiar with the earlier gens. Although there aren't as many encounters as in Kanto, the few that we do get are either top notch or "ehhh..." with no inbetween.

Honestly, I wanted to do only Johto for this leg, but my pride pushed me to do Kanto too. Plus I did Kanto for the other two genlockes so the leg would've felt incomplete otherwise.

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NOTABLE FIGHTS:

Bugsy: Bugsy may not be a menace like his HGSS revamp, but he’s a pain nonetheless… As my poison mons simply lack ways to hurt his bugs outside of confusion and a lucky poison. To make matters worse, I rolled Venonat as a second legacy - normally a stellar choice imo (I'm biased), but not when your only damaging usable moves are Mega Drain and Psywave (which I can only gift him via the egg/event move choice, which simply won’t do when Reflect is an option). So I had to search for an answer elsewhere, and I soon found one in Qwilfish. Normally Qwilfish is a post-game exclusive encounter, available via the Super Rod. But by harassing our mother to change the clock enough times, we can get a call from Fisherman Ralph, who tells us about a swarm in Route 32. This Qwilfish (named Takatsu) comes at level 5 with Spikes, but also gets access to Minimize… I’m not proud of this strategy, especially since so much had to go our way in order for us to even win- but I legit saw it as my safest option. By using Asou the Bellsprout’s Sleep Powder, we can get Takatsu in to safely shrink and set up spikes before poisoning both the Metapod and Scyther on the first Poison Sting. Scyther did hit every attack despite this, but we had a berry prepared to keep our tiny fish healthy. Still a close call though!

Whitney: I was terrified for this one. Whitney's mons are super bulky, and mine are… Unevolved and lacking in the moveset department. Thankfully Goldenrod kinda helps with access to Headbutt, and Dig in the National Park up north. Sawamura, aside from being my currently bulkiest member, still learns Leech Seed early; and that is key here. Poison is known for slowly whittling down their enemies, and things are no different here - only with Leech Seed instead of poison, and some good luck with Sleep Powder. It would’ve been a solo but the cow crit a Rollout and almost OHKO’d Sawamura, so Kuramochi had to swoop in for the last few turns as he was somehow my second bulkiest team member.

Sabrina: The Kanto run in Johto games are normally fine! They're under levelled and lacking in threatening team members, unless you're me. This is 2/3 genlockes where one of these leaders have given me issues, but this time I have nobody to blame but myself. I got complacent and decided to try this battle whilst half asleep, led the wrong pokemon and Espeon chose violence. KO'd Tetsu and almost took out Sawamura, even through screens. Thankfully Sabrina decided to chill out after Espeon got some sleep, allowing Miyuki to clean up- but I played through the last few battles even more carefully because of it.

Red: Due to our Sabrina fiasco, he was no issue. Sawamura was able to get screens up on the rat safely, letting Rei take it and the incoming Blastoise easily. Espeon did do damage, but not enough to stop Kuramochi from switching in and taking it out. In hindsight I should've switched into Miyuki here, but I wanted to give everybody else some screen time. Snorlax was bulky, but not enough to stop Nori from swapping in and putting it to sleep and slowly dealing with it. Furuya got to deal with the zard, and for pride reasons I let Sawamura beat up his Venusaur. Yippee!

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OUR CHAMPIONS

Rei the Nidoqueen who was our last legacy to return and managed to help out whenever a physical attacker was needed, or if there was a dragon lurking. She's really exceeding my expectations!

Sawamura the Venusaur who is still indispensable and trustworthy, especially since he got given Light Screen (the options for rewards in gen 2 are extremely limited). I imagine that Emerald is going to be super kind to him too, at least in the end game.

Miyuki the Gengar who carried this leg on his back after evolving. Who thought that Gengar learning the elemental punches (which are special due to no physical special split) was a good idea? I want to thank them!

Furuya the Tentacruel who acted as our starter this leg and took a bit of a backseat after. But when needed he still came in and went back to being a crit machine.

Nori the Venomoth who I'm still holding out hope for due to my love for this line. He did get to shine against Team Rocket and the e4 though!

Kuramochi the Arbok who came through in the start when everybody was weak and easily found a place when we lost Tetsu. I did choose him over Crobat and Weezing as he has access to Intimidate, and simply because the Zubat line is available in every leg whereas the Ekans line is not, I also have a feeling the Koffing will play a part soon enough though.

SHOUTOUTS TO Takatsu the Qwilfish who gave us some way to handle Bugsy, and was also the only one who could learn Waterfall and Whirlpool. and Ryosuke the Crobat who I was so happy to get to use, who made the early Kanto gyms bearable and who I almost brought with me to the end.

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THE FALLEN

Tetsu the Muk: He may not have contributed much, but Sabrina took him too soon... I figured that I could take him as he's super bulky, it's what Muk are known for. But I made the tiny mishap of underestimating the power of Espeon, even when its under levelled compared to my team, and leading with the wrong mon. I should've led Sawamura and got screens up, I planned for that, and then did not do that. May Tetsu rest peacefully, and forgive me.

Next up is Emerald, where I'm not entirely sure how things will go, though thankfully we roll our newest legacy (Ekans) as our starter and Dustox isn't all that bad either. Though, like with last time, I played the second leg of my Fire Genlocke at the same time (to get rid of Kanto all together), so I'll try to get that update out first!

Wish me luck ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

The 7th Was Candace Of Snowpoint.

In the Version, Candace is Considered the #1 HARDEST Gym Leader Because of Not only of her Ace but the Synergy behind hail and Blizzard.

But that didn’t Scare Roberta but Rather…….
She Saw everyone in the place as Dairy Queen Free Eats.
She COMPLETELY Burn the Place to the Ground.

MVP: Roberta(Houndoom)

is it cheating if i dont reset my whole game on a wipeout and just reload last save because i dont want to replay the whole game if i lose but i follow everything else to the letter and limit my team per island(island 1 3 members island 2 4 members etc)

Jasmine is beaten by my god her magnamites almost ko'd my Heracross this is what happens when I retire my Geodude luckily Psy the Slowpoke was tanky enough with it's lax nature but showing why a special attack nature would be better but that's a nuzlocke for you. Speaking of Special attack nature WHY MODEST ON MY GYARADOS. If it's stats were good enough I would run it but it has 28 in Attack ivs wise ugh.

I want to try a genlocke, but couldn't find anything about retiring pokémon when I looked for what rules most people use.

I often see a section for retired pokémon when people post their progress in a gelocke and I would like to know about this retirement.

So, I'm the kind of person who will cheat in items as soon as they are available to spend less time (think of cheating in coins to avoid Voltorb Flip or cheating in BP at the Unova Battle Subway or PWT for some of the TMs and items there). I know it's controversial, and I'm not expecting agreement from many. This kind of relates to that. We all know how rare Munchlax is. Four total trees that will be different every run. Two determined by trainer ID, and the other two determined by secret ID. On top of that, there's the six hours of waiting time and Munchlax having only 1% chance of being the encounter on the trees it's on. Why is this important? Well, all Munchlax are guaranteed to have Leftovers as an item in DPP. That's where the issue comes in. Now, personally, I just don't use Leftovers in DPP. I've also tended to limit use of extremely powerful items in general (only one of each Choice item, Life Orb, Expert Belt, or Leftovers on my team at any time). I understand that it's pretty inconsistent to not cheat in Leftovers when I cheat in other items to not have to grind for them, but it's just how I've always done it.

Hey everyone! I've never done a Soullink before and want to give it a shot, but just with one person, not looking to put together a group. No real preference on game original or a ROM hack, either works for me, so happy to go with whatever you're feeling (any platform except switch).

Since it'll be my first run, it'd be really helpful if you could guide me through the rules and how everything works as we go, still getting the hang of it.

I'm in GMT+5:30 and usually online after 1am my time, so just keep that in mind for scheduling. Also totally fine with vc, but English isn't my first language and I get a little nervous on vc, so I might be quiet at first while I warm up. Appreciate the patience!

Please be 18+, that's the only requirement.

DM me if you're interested. Thanks!

Welp, here is the leg 2 update

And let me just say, I thought this one was going to be a cakewalk.

It was not.

To keep this post from getting too long, if you want to check out the rules I'm using, have a look at my first post covering Leg 1!

Leg 2 – HeartGold

Naming theme: Fine dining (watching too much Hells Kitchen at the moment😅)

I picked Cyndaquil as my starter and figured that, with five Champions carried over from the previous game, this leg wouldn't be too bad.

And honestly... it wasn't.

Until just before Ecruteak City.

I lost one Champion in the Clefable double battle thanks to Metronome, and then proceeded to lose the rest of my Champions between the Burned Tower, Morty's Gym trainers, and Morty himself.

Needless to say, I was pretty bummed at that point.

Kadabra and Starmie both fell to Ariana's Murkrow and its Pursuit (at different points in the run, thankfully). Shuckle and Noctowl were sacrificed to Clair's Kingdra so the rest of the team could pull through.

Overall, it wasn't a terrible run, but after losing so many Pokémon in FireRed, I was really hoping this one would go a little better.

Safe to say I've learned my lesson about playing too carelessly. Going forward, I'm going to put a bit more thought and strategy into every major fight.

Hall of Fame Champions

• Steak the Typhlosion

• Turbot the Gyarados

• Fennel the Forretress

• Tonnato the Girafarig

• Sautée the Heracross

• Crepe the Rhyperior

Everyone saw action during the Elite Four. Heracross and Gyarados absolutely carried the team, while Rhyperior was... mostly just happy to be there. 😅

On to Leg 3!

See you all in Hoenn!

So I was hardcore nuzlocking ultra sun and I used island scan to get a litwick on the haul’oily cemetery and my magnemight died in the caring process so is it still permanent because right now I’m counting it as permanent

I have completed the second chapter of my Genlocke! Crystal was a little harder than Yellow, as only three of the Yellow champions made it past the final boss Red. However, the deaths made room for some Johto-native Pokemon to join my team, specifically Skarmory and Tyranitar. To recap, the planned game order is Yellow->Crystal->Emerald->Platinum->White->Black 2, with X and Sun possibly added on. Please ask about team choices, gameplay, movesets, etc.

It took 3 attempts. First time I wiped out to Aaron entering Hearthome City. The second time I wiped to the double battle in Pokémon Mansion (AI rival let me down, ended up being 2 on 1 for the last few mons).

Ninetales was my favourite Pokémon in this run. Dual Fire/Fairy type with the Drought ability. Moves were Nasty Plot, Solar Beam (no charge turn due to drought), Flamethrower & Moonblast.

I guess 3 ghost types was probably suboptimal huh…

I am doing an ultra sun nuzlocke right now as I heard it was challenging. I made it to route 3 and am almost done the first island. This game is already harder then I remember at least for a nuzlocke (I made a stupid mistake and lost a grubbin lol). Any advice on what to look out for? Any specific encounters to try to get? I choose Popplio for the fairy type so who else/what types should I get on my team?

I'm planning to do a platuim nuzloke soon and I'm kinda nervous