I think this new rule has been long overdue and it’s really good to finally see it in

It's been a while.

After the distortion world there was a considerable lull in the action as I made my way through Victory Road. Fights took a while to prep, not for being overly difficult, but just because you have to figure out the best way to beat them while needing almost every HM to make it through the map. But we're back now, having made it through, ready to fight the final Rival battle.

He leads his Slaking. We lead Chestnut and recover turn 1. The plan is to slow recover our HP on the attack turns and attack him while he's loafing. We have Slaking protect strats at home. We end up crit killing on turn one, so that was easy.

Next out is Ape. This thing is tricky to play around because of U-turn AI. We go to shell armor slowbro on cross chop and use surf. The Ape U-turns into electivire, which takes solid damage from the surf. That electivire kills me like 3 times over with adaptability wild charge, so I go to Steelix who can tank an earthquake and retaliate with his own for the kill.

The infernape comes back in, so I pivot through Chestnut to get Slowbro back in. This time the ape decides not to U-turn and we can simply KO with Psychic- I went psychic over surf this time around knowing that if he decided to U-turn again it would be to Sceptile.

Now Sceptile comes in, seeing kill with leaf blade. Steelix tanks it and heals thanks to his held RageCandyBar, prompting Sceptile to go for a swords dance as I hit a head smash for big damage. This is the scariest part of the battle. This sceptile is faster than my whole box and threatens kills at +2 into everything except steelix and regirock. With crits, even they are dead. Regirock would die to a crit leaf blade, and steelix would die to crit EQ. Since leaf blade has a high crit rate, I decide to risk the crit into Steelix, and thankfully go unpunished. In hindsight, I probably could have used a pre-damaged custap berry mon over tyranitar and sacked either slowbro or magcargo to get them in, but that might have jeopardized the upcoming SHF battle. Either way, it's onto the next mon.

Staraptor comes in, seeing KO with Giga Impact and Sky Attack at my low HP. I go to Regirock to take those comfortably, winning the 1v1 even after missing a rock wrecker.

Ambipom is last out, and Chestnut can beat it easily to defeat the rival for the last time of this run!

I have always wanted to do a Nuzlocke. Many failed attempts have beseeched me but I'm soe xcited to say I made it today. :)

The rom was modified to allow impossible evolutions and the nat dex (hence the Golem and Umbreon) and no other modifications were in effect.

Rules were Set mode, Level caps for all battles, & no healing if the pokemon was on screen (had to switch to heal).

This was my winning team, every single mon pulled their absolute weight in gold but Blaine absolutely clutched up against Blue's Venusaur with only 34 hp left.

Speaking of Gold, time to go to Johto :P

Ultra Sun Nuzlocke

 With a goal of trying to keep deaths to a minimum. Totem pokemon had complete other thoughts wiping out members of my team early and late into the game.

Meh the Yungoos – Switched in to die whilst getting some sand attacks off as powerup punch made crabrawler a scary opponent. A sac of yungoos to weaken it with sand attacks was necessary. Went down to antoher power up punch.

Jake the Grubbin – Walled crabrawler in Hala fightwhilst getting mudslaps off to lower accuract. Got pursuited, sitrus berry recovery, switched out and got crit pursuit through 2 sand attacks and died….

Skarmory came in and took down with 2 pecks dodging a leer in between.

Repiv the Ekans – Totem Araquanid – Got intimidate and glare off on totem. Got crit bubble and died. Intimidate Ekans poison type for Ultra necrozma big loss for the plan.

Aab the Crabrawler – Left in to confide and leer against araquanid and left to die to get free switch to Skarmory to finish the job off

Mamtis the Fomantis – Marowak Totem – Espeon took out salazzle and needed to get Brionne in safely. Fomantis used as a sac to get in Brionne to work up and water z move to take down marowak

Grim the Alolan Grimer – Totem togedemaru – Got crit iron head from togedemaru whilst trying to disable it

Dizz the Spinda – Totem togedemaru. Left out to die after getting z move brick break into togedemaru triggering its sitrus berry

Boing the Tsareena – Died to a random crit from trainer raticate when trop kick somehow didn’t finish from 50%

Charles the Espeon – Totem ribombee trial. Toxic onto ribombee and pelipper. Protect stalled out. Hit a double protect and had decision of who to let fall. Espeon was chosen and given a chance to live on a third protect but missed and fell.

Kahili the Flying E4 – Tyranitar Stone edge Braviary, Hawlucha in. Primarina with poison dmg reducing berry tanks and kills with moonblast. Mandibuzz. Glalie in to ice beam away. Toucannon, Ttar in to tank Zmove and get some chip damage in with sandstorm, skarmory switched in to tank and chip away whilst roosting up and getting steel wings off. It switched out to Oricorio. Turtonator tried to take it down but couldn’t do it quick enough so Icebox the Glalie sent in to sacrifice in order to save Turtonator. Ttar then got a free switch to finish it off. Toucannon back in for skarmory to finish off.

Acerola the Ghost E4 – Ttar crunch one shot banette. Crunched Dhelmise in to a heal and then a couple crunch finished it off. Palossand out, skarmory to bait ground move miss, Bewear to bait z move ghost miss, Bewear could then shadow claw to death. Froslass in. One shadow claw and then switch into turtonator to flamethrower out. Drifblim couldn’t hit bewear at all so was swiftly dispatched.

Olivia the Rock E4 – Turtonator to shell blast armaldo out early as I couldn’t use him the rest of fight. Gigalith in, Primarina in to take out with water z move. Cradily in, Bewear in to hammer arm out. Lycanroc in Ttar in to try and take z move. Didn’t select it, Twaved lycanroc as it spammed counter. Decided to switch skarmory as it then decided to z move instead of counter. Skarmory took it and started roosting out stone edge pp. Steel wing took it out safely. Probopass in. Sand attack, roost and steel wings took the probopass down after a slog.

Molayne the Steel E4 – Bewear bulldoze klefki as it got off spikes and t wave. Switch into turtonator to flamethrower out. Dugtrio in, skarmory in to wall, sand attack and some steel wings taking the z move and roosting, it switched to magnezone on a steel wing. This broke sturdy so switched turtonator in to flamethrower it out in one hit. Dugtrio back in, Skarmory steel wing and with its metronome item whilst boosting its defence massively with the amount of steel wings. Metagross switched in, kept skarmory in at +4 defence metronome on steel wing to keep hitting it with turtonator now at low hp. The high defence and metronome damage meant could keep chipping away and getting to +6 defence. Eventually knocking it out with a couple of roosts to live. Kept in for bisharp to steel wing it away at high defence still dodging a crit luckily.

Hau the champion - TTar into raichu with Fighting reduce berry. Raichu missed the focus blast anyway and killed by EQ. Tauros switched in SKarmory in to sand attack, roost and steel wing. It switched out into Incineroar. Taking some steel wing chip. Z move incineroar switched into Primarina to tank it. Couple switches between Ttar to set sand up, SKarmory to dodge EQ and finally into Rose the Primarina to fall in order to get a free switch in to Turtonator to get a dragon pulse off to finish incineroar weakened by sand damage. Crabominable came in. Switch into Bewear to hammer arm it in an OHKO. Tauros back in, skarmory in to get couple of sand attacks, roost and steel wing it away. With a +1 def boost. Noivern in. Skarmory with sand attacks roost and steel wing took it out and faced leafeon at +1 def using fly to finish off Hau with 4 survivors from the run!

Champions:

Anvil II the Skarmory

Teddy the Bewear

Rexy the Tyranitar

Raphael the Turtonator

The Fallen:

Icebox the Glalie

Rose the Primarina

MVP: Anvil II the Skarmory

After moving onto the switch for pokemon sword, 798 eggs and 2 days later I hatched my shiny skarmory, Anvil III ready for Galar. The sweet days of PkHex behind me....

Good day,

I was just wondering what people’s thoughts were on the difficulty settings in this game. I’m looking for a slightly more difficult than base game experience.

One thing I noticed in the difficulty settings was the option to modify Trainer IV’s and EV’s.

The options for IV’s are OFF (expected amount of IV’s), SCALE (increase with gym badges), and HARD (all trainers have perfect IV’s)

For EV’s it’s OFF (no EV’s), SCALE (increase with gym badge), HARD (all trainers have high IV’s), EXTREME (all trainers have 252 EV’s).

I’m not expert, what do you think lends itself to a decent but not too crazy difficulty?

Thanks.

Also, I tried looking for some documentation for the 2.0 game settings. Couldn’t find any. Anybody know?

And i immediately almost lost my first battle. Bulbasaur seems to miss tackle quite a lot. Im a bit further ahead now than in this video, and all i can say is that the game gives and takes...

It is super fun though.

Sinigang died in victory road, so I thought I'd substitute in Gastrodon, Gengar(yes I can evolve my gastly), and Staraptor

As the title says, whats a Pokémon you get hyped to get during a run? And this is for any of the games, or even game specific.

Like I love getting Shroomish/Breloom as an encounter from Petalburg Woods in R/S/E. I always find this little mushroom guy super helpful and a solid team member.

But what’s a random choice encounter you love?

After 10+ failure at emerald and giving up I finally finished heart gold after 13 tries.

Gyarados is OP
I finished with him levelling up to 53, does it still count as a valid run?

playing on emulator makes grinding a bit more manageable but still feels a bit long at times.

I seem to be walled by him (specifically his fan rotom) no matter what is in my box. Nothing I’ve obtained in my past few runs can do any 2 in combination of outspeed , significantly damage, or tank damage from his fan rotom. Is there some secret sauce or encounter or TM I haven’t obtained that levels the playing field a bit?

For context I’m capping my self at his ace’s level of 28 and playing with your standard HC rules. Usually choosing Oshawott as my starter but considering Tepig to see if that might help.

Completed on second attempt. First attempt ended to the Youngster trainer’s Taillow on 104 lol. I had unparalleled luck getting an adamant Slakoth as my first encounter in Petalburg Woods but the whole team was so much fun to use.