The Pokemon Nuzlocke Thread

[Glork]

Raikou/Entei update:
Spent like a solid 90 minutes last night fighting them (they're Lv 40 btw) in a route I already captured a pokemon in. Got sleep on each of them, whittled down their health. Setting up to try to catch at least one of them. Going to Mean Face them w/my Gastly and just chuck balls and hope for the best. I'm waiting for the guy in Azalea Town to make me some Fast Balls which should give me a decent chance of catching one of them as long as sleep gives me 3 balls on each. I'm ok sacrificing two potential normal catches to grab one of these legendaries.

[Klazam]

go glork go!

[SleepyKrew]

The only true way to play a pokemon game.

Sight-nuzlocking XY was really easy because the game literally gives you a Mega Lucario >.>

I feel really dirty about all the "free" Pokemon I'm using in my X run so I'm gonna put an extra restriction on those when I do Y. Though my Lucario died recently and I actually felt kinda relieved.

[BROseidon]

Yeah XY is a really easy game to Nuzlocke.

Hardest is probably Emerald.

[Glork]

The only true way to play a pokemon game.

Sight-nuzlocking XY was really easy because the game literally gives you a Mega Lucario >.>

I feel really dirty about all the "free" Pokemon I'm using in my X run so I'm gonna put an extra restriction on those when I do Y. Though my Lucario died recently and I actually felt kinda relieved.

Yeah SoulSilver has thrown Pokémon at me in nearly every city.

(Btw I did catch Raikou, but per my level restriction rule, I can't use it until I get to a gym wth level 40+ Pokémon.)

[Glork]

So the next gym is fighting, and since my only flying pokemon (Pidgey, Togetic) are also normal types, I have to level my Slowpoke and Drowzee. Yay grinding.

[Errantparabola]

Yeah XY is a really easy game to Nuzlocke.

Hardest is probably Emerald.

out of curiosity, why is emerald so difficult?

[Glork]

IIRC gyms are a bit tough in Emerald if you don't get solid pokemon quickly enough.

(EDIT: Like, Brawly is a complete bitch if you haven't been fortunate enough to get a good psychic pokemon to carry you through the fight.)

[Chevre]

Yeah, now I see it, and it's actually a pretty big issue: In addition to brawly, I see major problems with . . . well everyone but Roxanne and Winona. I guess they might be easier if you're training up to their levels, but I'm too impatient for that.

I might start one, I just don't know which to do

[SleepyKrew]

I've quit so many Nuzlocke runs because of Norman

[Glork]

I've tightened my level restriction slightly. Rather than trying to explain, I'll just illustrate w/the example I used for Chuck.

He has one pokemon at lvl 29, and one at lvl 31.
Thus, I let myself train one pokemon to 31, and one to 29, and the rest had to be 28 or under. (EDIT: That said, I actually rought him with no pokemon above 29, because Slowpoke/Hypno just kind of wrecked the gym, but that would been my level restriction had I wanted to keep training up.)

[Glork]

I've quit so many Nuzlocke runs because of Norman

Yeah I don't think I've ever finished a R/S/E nuzlocke because of Norman.

[Chevre]

He really is the tricky one. With Brawly you might luck out and get a good poke in Dewford Cave, or you can just skip the gym for a bit (depending on your level cap rules). Wattson and Flannery aren't worries if you've picked Mudkip like any rational person would. But Norman, being normal type and all with SLAKINGS, is tricky, and there's really no new routes between Flannery and him, unless you want to count the desert.

[BROseidon]

Brawly's not the problem in Emerald once you've done it a few times. You can usually get 1-2 pokes that can deal with him.

Sparky and Norman are the problems.

[BROseidon]

Or rather, Sparky is a problem because he makes you start mudkip, who's not amazing for the rest of the game :/

[Psyche]

i want the battle frontier backkk

[Oman]

Thornton and Pablo both evolved last night. Pidgeotto and Charmeleon hype.

[chamber]

Original gen is terrible for nuzlockes in my experience, much worse than emerald. So many moves in that game just completely Reck you. Like Wrap or ever being frozen.

[chamber]

Also the miltank in silver/gold is also brutal.

[Glork]

Oof. I was worried about Jasmine, but her Magenmites and Steelix turned out to be pushovers. I taught my Dratini Flamethrower which has nicely filled in for my lack of fire Pokemon. Once he eventually becomes a Dragonite, I can teach it fly, drop Togetic, and start rocking out with Umbreon full time.

[Glork]

Gahhhhh Omelette (Togetic) just got fucked in Team Rocket HQ. Now I have to use Pidgey until I can get my Dragonite.

[BROseidon]

Original gen is terrible for nuzlockes in my experience, much worse than emerald. So many moves in that game just completely Reck you. Like Wrap or ever being frozen.

Uh, original game is super, super easy.

There's this pokemon called Nidoran that's insanely common and also completely broken. Also guaranteed Gyarados.

[Glork]

Oh god, the Team Rocket leader's Houndoom just wrecked my Magneton because apparently it knew Fire Fang and critted me. Thankfully, I still have two other very capable electric types, but I'm going to miss that durability from having a steel type in my party.

[SleepyKrew]

Finally resumed my Y run. Got eighth badge, am doing Elite 4 later today. Not sure if I'm overleveled.

[SleepyKrew]

Not sure if I'm overleveled.

Everyone but my Durant was by a little