This time remembering to make a topic about my Nuzlocke [COMPLETE. for now...]

[OldSoulja]

As the title says, I'm doing a Nuzlocke, since V11 just came out, might as well also see what changed between versions eh?

The title, also, is referencing the Nuzlocke i did of Reborn, which I forgot to make a topic talking about until it was already done.

 

So uuuuhhh, yeah, not much else to say, so here goes!

Another thing I should mention, is that I started this save file on V10, so I could use the Change Starter Mod, went to a randomizer(so that i could include evolved things too), and went from there.

 

 

The current state of the squad : 

  

so yeah, Hermes was my starter, as a Hakamo-o.

Bebe was caught in Gearen Park, as a static encounter.

breh was caught in Carotos Mountain.

reliable was caught in the Corrupted Cave

Apche was caught in Crawli's gym

Seymour was caught in Wispy Chasm

There's about 68 Pokemon in the PC right now, and more to come.

Also, 30 Deaths.

[OldSoulja]

Just finished the whole Goldenwood Forest incident, and man oh man.

 

*  first off, I added Nutter the Weedle on the team, who I quickly got to a Beedrill

*  Being teamed up with Melia kind of helped me do some grinding, so that was nice. Speaking of which, I did successfully beat her, and the girl with the Leavanny without losing anybody. 
*  One thing I noticed about my team after that, is that every single member, besides one, are dual typed, so Shadow Pokemon could *really* mess me up.

*  The Misfortunate Duo's Murkrow almost murdered Que the Alottata with just one, raw Wing Attack, but it only put me at like 3 HP, no big deal yknow

*  Now Zetta... turn 1, his Minior Confuse Rays Soup, and Soup Water Guns it, and activates its Shields Down. Then turn two, the Minior Self-Destructs, and crits Soup, and Soup is gone, so thats my first death. Then the Grimer came out, and really i had nothing to take the hit, so i just chucked the best balls at it and hope it worked, which it did.

*  And then, the Riftados, my plan against it, was using Harden with Nutter against it, which i did, and was comfortably tanking Fire Fangs, and I poisoned it with Poison Sting too, and then it crit me, and killed Nutter. I just went into Hermes after that and stalled it with just some attacks, and Protect. And Bebe evolved right after that.

 

And that's about all the BIG stuff that happened, now I gotta get two Pokemon added to the squaaaad, one of which will probably be Boba the Geodude i caught in the cave

 

[OldSoulja]

So, I'm probably gonna end up treating updating what's going on like episodes, because updating every time an event goes down would be too much, so here's what happened since last time :

 

*  One thing I forgot to mention, is that during the Goldenwood incident, Hermes, my Hakamo-o, learned Dragon Tail, so she finally got a real move

*  Added Boba the Geodude, and the Shadow Alolan Grimer on the team, though I replaced the Grimer after he got ready for purification, with Villa, the shiny Scatterbug, who actually took a bit to get to a Vivillon.

*  I actually ran right through Venam with Bebe, the Roselia, with Extrasensory, except for the Alolan Grimer, who i just Magnituded with Boba, so that fight was kinda... yeah.

*  Now, I was not expecting to fight Dr. Jenkel, let alone fight his PULSE Musharna, or ready for a Double Battle with that, and well, I put myself in a situation where someone had to die, and that was either Hermes, Bebe, or Hot Sauc, and unfortunately, but also kinda fortunately, it was Hot Sauc the Fletchinder that died, because I was trying to bait a Fairy Wind with Hermes, but i got Mist Balled and OHKO'd on the switch from that Musharna.

*  then, I added dog the Litleo on the team, and I went a bit extra, to try and finally evolve Que the Alolan Rattata, which i did
*  Then Nim happens, and boy, that one was a bit of a doosy, i started off with Hermes and Bebe, to bait Psybeams on Hermes, while it Protects, while Bebe knocks out the Solrock and Lunatone with Magical Leaf, so that Que could do his thing - be fat and attack - without any flinching shenanigans.

*  Then Zetta, oh boy, him again. Teamed up with Venam, and well, the first two were zero issue, then out comes that dastardy Minior again... and it gets an Ancient Power boost, and it was very set on bodying Venam, and in that process, it got yet ANOTHER boost, and then it takes a break from that, and Ancient Powers Que and blows it away, then I sent out Hermes, and prayed to all thats good, it either doesn't attack me, or Ancient Power doesn't become Super Effective thanks to the terrain, so that I could Dragon Tail it out, but he swaps the Minior out. After that he kinda got destroyed, turned out he didn't have any more Ancient Powers left.

*  Now, my plan for the Rift Galvantula was to just lead off with Boba and wreck house, but those Joltiks did almost half my HP with each Struggle Bug, and my Rock Throw didn't OHKO, so I had to stop that plan right away. Instead, I just went out into Hermes and started Dragon Tailing, healing, and protecting, since they couldn't do anything to it.

 

Now, I've reached Sheridan, but I've not gotten my Sherdian Village, Sherdian Arena, static Klink, and Casino, and in a bit, Amethyst Grotto Encounters, so I'll need to get something to replace that one spot on the team

 

Also, one thing I've noticed, is that so far, there's a lot less Shadow Pokemon, like, there were not any grunts with Shadow Pokemon in Amethyst Cave, like there used to be

[OldSoulja]

Well, welcome back to another episode of this Nuzlocke, that i uhh... idk where i was going with that, anyways, just now finished all the Sheridan/Carotos Mountain stuff, so, here's a review of the stuff that happened.

 

*  Before I made any progression, I had to go ahead and gather some encounters, and cleared out most of the Sheridan Help Center requests as well. And from all the encounters I had, I decided to slap Zee, the Elgyem on the team, because.. idk, i didn't have a psychic type, and the fighting type leader was coming up.

ofc i saved and reset for the Kecleon Item sidequest btw.

*  Now, when I went to fight Keta, I thought to myself, and noticed "I have a very weak Normal Type on my team, that I kinda wanna evolve, is it a good idea to bring it against the FIGHTING type gym leader?" and then I experienced another brain blast, and figured it wasn't so I took Rocksol the Solrock out of the PC for that fight.

*  The first fight against Keta went pretty... expected, just Rocksol spamming Zen Headbutt until the Scraggy came out, and Villa, the Vivillon spamming Psybeam while the Fire types weren't out, and when they were... i tried to just play around them swapping between Vivillon and Hermes, my Hakamo-o. And then, the Lucario came out, and it whipped a Rock Tomb outta nowhere and killed Villa, which... to be fair, was probably gonna happen sometime soon anyways, but still, not good.

*  And then, into Carotos Mountain I go! Everything was pretty easy actually, mostly bc idk, 4/6 of my team were lv 25 while the opponents were 20? maybe. And then, I realized once again, that I got destroyed by Shadow Pokemon, thanks to my only non-dual type being Elgyem. so out comes Shadow Quagsire, but it did too much damage to Elgyem for me to try and heal, so I swapped to the mon with the highest Defense, in that case, Boba, my Graveler, and again, it did too much damage for me to try and heal it off, so I threw a Dusk Ball and prayed, and it actually got caught. BUT THEN.... the battle wasn't over, because the Field Effect kicked in, and killed Boba, who was on 7 HP, after the battle ended. so that upset me a bit

*  oh right, I should mention, especially here, after Villa died, I picked up Chugga the Grubbin i caught in Sheridan, and breh, the Roggenrola i caught in Carotos Mountain after Boba died, and ft the Spritzee, who replaced Rocksol, because... Rocksol served his purpose, and he did good, but I wanted some other typing

*  So now I'm kinda just blitzing through the Xen lab again, because once again, im a bit overleveled. and then, I reach the end, and here I was, expecting Madelis to fight me with just that Shadow Mewtwo, but turned out, it now was a full on Battle! This is why I like to sometimes replay games when new versions come out, to see all the little stuff that changes. Anyways, to the battle, well.. first off, Zee died like 3 turns into the battle, bc she got teamed up on, which sucked, but nothing i could've done about that. after that, I kind of just focused down all the things that could take out Keta's team, because I didn't want to fight in a 1 V 2, and it somewhat worked, also, after his Scraggy Intimidated her Golbat, I started to set up Calm Minds with Spritzee.. and then, there were only two mons left, Aromatisse, and Mewtwo. Mewtwo simply annhilated Keta's Pignite and Machoke, while I was trynna Draining Kiss that Aromatisse to death. Then, out come's Keta's Lucario, and thankfully, he actually Bullet Punched the Aromatisse, putting it in range of my.. what? +3 Draining Kiss to kill it, of course, Mewtwo then shredded Lucario.

*  And now the most EPIC DUEL of the century, the superpowerful, genetically engineered to be perfect, further powered by shadowificiation, Legendary Pokemon, MEWTWO, head to head with.... a lv 25 spritzee. SHADOW FIRE! says Mewtwo, which does a whopping 8 points of damage. the Spritzee kisses Mewtwo, and the love he never experienced was super effective! dealing more than half his health, while healing back all 8 points Mewtwo did. Mewtwo then, fires off a powerful, SHADOW CHILL! and lands... A CRITICAL HIT!!  Young Soully watched in fear, as Spritzee's health drop, all the way down... to over half its max HP!! i really don't know why i typed all this lmao, but yeah, Mewtwo can be a total pushover if you have a fragrant nose thing with a calm enough mind.

*  And then its Rift Volcanion time! it really was... not difficult at all, i just kinda wailed on it with Hermes, though it DID catch me off guard for a moment with Overheat, which put me down to 18 HP. oh, also, i picked up neccguy the Girafarig after Zee died.

* And now, its Spirit Keta time, and honestly, it was actually a pretty easy match, and I saw his team changed a lot since last version. and after actually playing Where Love Lies, now i know why he had what he had, back when i played this game for the first time, I thought his team was super random. Well, the match WAS pretty easy, until that Gallade came out, which did over half of Chugga's HP, while Acrobatics nearly one shot it, so then I swapped into neccguy, and I fired a Psybeam, which didn't kill, and then it Drain Punched me, did too much damage, and healed back too much, so i let neccguy die to heal up Chugga, so I could kill it with Acrobatics. Also, why was it getting healed from Leftovers twice in the same turn? Was that something I missed?

 

So uh, yeah, that's it, I probably really need to get better at making these shorter, because, i doubt anyone cares enough to read through all of this lmao. but yeah, 4 deaths, things are looking a bit more sweating here huh. I suppose next update will be after all the Mansion stuff, so uhhh, stay tuned I suppose?

 

Also, I just wanna give a shoutout, because honestly, I REALLY appreciate all these new, small changes, like the Gyarados and Volcanion rift worlds, Team Xen in Gearen looking for Melia after the Goldenwood Incident, getting to battle Dr. Jenkel and his PULSE, the new redesigned maps, getting to actually have a good fight against Madelis in Carotos, and just, all of this stuff, I really like it, and makes replaying the game still feel somewhat new!

[OldSoulja]

Well this is a very short one. or at least, short compared to the previous ones, because I could swear, I thought there was more stuff between the Sheridan stuff, and Goldenleaf Town.

And if i were to combine the Mansion and Goldenleaf, it'd be way too long. so yeah, here is.

 

*  First thing I did after beating Ketaagain, was remembering that I found a Heart Scale in Amethyst Grotto, so Hermes, my Hakamo-o, became a lot more... usable, bc i taught her Sky Uppercut, which isn't the best, but hey she finally has a STAB Fighting move.

*  And then first thing out of Sheridan, a battle against Amanda, which was... fairly easy, I remember she used to have a mono-fire team, but now she does not, which is cool i suppose. Same with Ren and his previously mono Dark team, actually.

*  I decided to take the path with the trainers on Route 3, bc i needed all the training i could get tbh

*  Then here comes Rorrim B, and well, he kinda spooked me for a second, with his Bruxish setting up 2 Swords Dances in front of my Charjabug, but thanks to some swap work, i managed to swap into Charjabug in an Aerial Ace(which did the least amount of damage from all his moves) and then killed it, after that it was a walk in the park.

*  There really isn't much to say about what I did around the mansion hm? well uh, I did everything I could, I suppose, except get the Gothita, because I need the Garufa Book for it? and I gave it to that guy for a Blue Moon Ice Cream, bc I needed the MONEY

*  So uh, yeah, Marianette battle! breh the Boldore, and ft the Spritzee were the stars of the show in this, as breh tanked through the Ambipom and Stantler, and then it was Chatot vs Spritzee, which was a bit scary, because while I tried to Calm Mind, the Chatot got up to +4 with Nasty Plot, and then to +6 while I Draining Kissed it, which didn't kill it, though it then went for Roost, which allowed me to actually kill it, after that, ft just kinda swept, the Bewear was a bit of an oof, since it actually took the Draining Kiss, and its Facade did like 64 points of HP, though Draining Kiss healed all of that back up

 

So, that's about it really. Next up is all the Goldenleaf Town story stuff, so that might be another long one.

 

[OldSoulja]

This didn't take as long as I anticipated, and again, it felt shorter than I expected, but there was a good amount of stuff nontheless

 

*  Into Goldenleaf, first thing I do, of course is get my encounters for the place, and on Wispy Path, then, I proceed as usual.

*  Now, in older versions, there was a battle vs Aelita before Ren pulled up the fence before entering Goldenleaf, and well, now I was challenged to a battle that I very much didn't expect. Also, took notice that now she's more of a Fighting/Flying trainer, than just Fighting. Yeah that Hawlucha gave me a mini heart attack bc it Bulked Up, but it really didn't do much to my Charjabug, so I Acrobaticed it to death after Paralyzed it with Spark. Then, that Combusken started to Bulk Up too, but it really couldn't touch my Hakamo-o, so we both kept wailing on each other, until it Paralyzed me with Thunderpunch of all things, and I ran out of Sky Uppercuts, and since it was her last mon, I couldn't Dragon Tail it out, so I went out into Spritzee, to just try and heal up Hakamo-o, but i lived the +5 Thunderpunch, and because it Thunderpunched me, and didn't Flame Charge, I thought it ran out, so I let dowg my Houndoom die, so I could go out into my Charjabug, but it still had a Flame Charge left, so Charjabug is dead as well. After that I went into my Boldore, because Sturdy, and turned out, it didn't have a Fighting Type move this whole time, which I was afraid of... so uh, yeah, i killed it with a Mud Slap.

*  After that disaster, I put dog, the Litleo back on the team, and Amida the Shinx on the team, and i finally got the Litleo to evolve, that's the reason I actually wasn't using it this whole time, I was afraid It'd die, and because its moveset sucked, so I actually used a rare candy to get it to lv 36 to learn Flamethrower before evolving, and then Reverse Candied it down.

*  And so, I go to deal with the Rift Gyarados, Agent C was really easy, none of those bugs could actually touch Hermes. Anyways, the Gyarados was... dumb? I led off with Amida to Intimidate it, and went into Boldore(bc sturdy, so i knew i'd live), and then back into Amida to Intimidate it again, but all it ever used was Fire Fang? even when Boldore was out, it went for Fire Fang, and 3 Sparks from Amida killed it, only thing I had to worry about was a different attack out of nowhere, or a Crit.

*  Now we're in Wispy Tower, and well, yeah none of those grunts did anything notable really, well, there were a few close calls with a Duosion Psyshocking my not-psychic resistant team, but thats all. The Misfortunate Duo, again, wasn't a very big deal, allthough the Mismagius did give me a bit of a spook with a Calm Mind boosted Crit Shadow Ball, which almost killed Amida.

*  The Battle against Geara was uh, idk, it was... yeah irdk. But, I should've expected him to not be a mono Ghost trainer anymore, after all, a lot of the others aren't monotype anymore. At the beginning my plan was sort of to lower one of his leading Pokemon's Attack to hell, and keep focusing the other side, but the mistake I did was letting that Pokemon be his Alolawak, who was still pretty threatening honestly. So yeah, that plan sort of worked, 'til the Clefairy came out, and at that point I just killed the Marowak. And then out came the Giratina. long story short, my Spritzee died because the Marowak got me at -2 defense through Shadow Bone, and I really had no safe switch in.

*  And now its Narciss-- oh, right, Ren battled me, almost forgot. yeah i killed everything he had in two hits. next. also, put Hairepen the Alolan Dugtrio on the team.

*  okay, NOW its Narcissa time! and really, the only thing that REALLY gave me issues was the Chandelure, it would kill everything in two hits, so my plan was as such : Noble Roar with Pyroar, then Swap into Dugtrio, hoping to live, and Bulldoze it, to either kill, or at least slow it down, and well, it just barely missed the KO, so Hairepen didn't last very long.

I killed it with Bebe, my Roserade then, and well, she was the MVP in this fight, thanks to Leech Seed, and Giga Drain against her last three mons, Rotom, Dusclops, and Spiritomb,

 

So yeah, that's about it, 4 Deaths, but hey, that's as many as in the Sheridan Arc, so its not that bad. I think?

anyways, I still need to get some things like, the Casino Pokemon, the Eevee from the Sheridan Help Center, and whatever

[OldSoulja]

So, this took a while, and while I could've made this after the Xen Prison stuff was over, there... really wasn't much that happened battle-wise, so it didn't feel worth it, but now I've made it to Kakori Village, and here's the stuff :

 

*  After my Alolan Dugtrio died in the Gym Battle, I decided to pick up Sheila, the Pineco i caught in Odd Pass, because my team was very weak to Psychic, and well...

*  I actually managed to beat Nim on Route 3 without losing anybody, through doing things like baiting moves with my Hakamo-o, and Protecting with it or swapping into my Forretress, while I had Luxray just firing off attacks, or healing something.

*  After that, I decided to swap my Boldore out, because I know I'm getting close to getting the item for it to evolve, and I really want it to live for that, so I picked up the Solrock I used back against Keta again.

*  And then its Neved time. see? not much happens battle-wise, but anyways, maaaaan, this Battle makes me mad. Because, first, all of his Pokemon are higher than the player's cap at the moment (40), but that's not what actually upsets me, what upsets me is the fact that just Neved's Froslass alone, outspeeds and destroys Aelita's entire team, except for Blaziken, who she leads off with, who is very prone to dying turn one, so unless you have something capable of killing that Froslass(which to be fair isn't too hard, but its also 4 lvs higher than your cap) quickly, then its most likely gonna end up being a 2 V 1 for a good portion of the match. Anyways, off with my little rant, I lost my Pyroar and Solrock in this battle, the Solrock died bc it failed to kill Vikavolt with a Stone Edge, and Pyroar bc it failed to kill Crabominable with a Flamethrower.

*  Well, after that my character kinda got very tired, and she wouldn't get out of bed in the ship, but then i used Debug Mode and got out of bed. Also, added Lloyd the Claydol on the team, and breh the Boldore made a return.

*  So, we get to Terajuma Shore, and well, I'm pretty surprised, we actually get to battle Alex and Sam now, so that was pretty cool

*  "Its time to fight Vala------*record scratch*" "I just added two mons on the team, and both are weak to water, and i'm going to face the water gym leader... huh" So instead I took Lloyd and breh out, and put in Pluggers the Shiinotic and Ecchi the Tangrowth on the team.

*  NOW it was time to fight Valarie, and well, it was actually quite easy, the only thing that posed a problem was Primarina, bc it got a SpAtk drop on my Roserade with Moonblast, so my Giga Drains were a 3HKO, and she kept using Hyper Potions, and I kept healing with the Drain, and blablabla. And then uh, the Seismitoad just caught me from a whole different dimension, as it Sludge Bombed and OHKOd Pluggers, and then it actually LIVED a GIGADRAIN from my Tangrowth, albeit, just barely.

*  And man, I also appreciate actually seeing the Carnivine that was causing problems show up more than once before Riftification

*  And speaking of things that were new, the Geara battle was also new, and well, it wasn't really that scary, the scariest thing on his team was his Masquerain, and I don't mean that because of Intimidate, its bc it Quiver Danced to all hell and back, and I had to stall it out with Leech Seed, and Forretress. oh, the Seaking i also had just caught purely because I needed Surf died, oh well.

*  The Rift Carnivine battle was... very underwhelming actually, like, Roserade's Venoshock OHKOd all the Tangelas, and Carnivine itself just Coiled up, got Venoshocked, and Bug Bitten, in the same turn it used its move, and died. The Tangrowths were the biggest Threats, simply because they didn't get OHKOd from a single Venoshock, instead I actually had to think and swap around them, with Kommo-o, Forretress, and Roserade.

 

Aside from the first "episode" I've lost 4 Pokemon every single time, this time, losing Pyroar, Solrock, Shiinotic, and Seaking. I swear, I will NOT lose 4 Pokemon for the next one. speaking of which, I honestly don't know at what point I will call that an "episode"

[OldSoulja]

Welcome back to another episode of this. While not a whole lot happened story wise, I did a lot of other things though.

 

*  Well, first thing I did after coming to Kakori, was do some Help Center stuff, specifically the Black Shard one, and then I tried to do the Thief At Large one, but realized I didn't have access to route 5 yet.

*  Now I got access to Route 5, and honestly, I completely forgot there was a Zetta battle there, probably because it was actually pretty not challenging

*  Then the Dexoy happened, and because my team was still horrible against Psychic, I grabbed a Pancham out of the PC, just for this one part

*  After THAT, I went to complete my mission, and I'm kinda debating swapping Roserade out for Venusaur, bc Venusaur is thiccer, but at the same time, Roserade is the fastest mon on my team, and she's been the MVP of the team for a while, so idk.

*  And then, the Rorim B battle, that was going pretty steadily alright, until the Oricorio-Fire stepped out, while I had my Forretress and Roserade out, and at that point, I let Cab my Kingler die, so I could bring in my Luxray safely, and to be fair, the Kingler was only there for Surf, again.

*  Now we go into the Sheridan Wetlands, and I caught a Skorupi, which is all kinds of dope, and I'll need to make a trip back there sometime to get the Mudkip, and... was it Ralts, and Shadow Beldum? Not 100% sure about those last two, but yeah

*  I like the changes to the Shadow Factory, it looks pretty nice now, also, fought Ren, who, again, got thrashed. He really, really, REALLY didn't want his Reuniclus to go down btw, he went for all 10 Recovers, and used 2 Hyper Potions on it, while it was against my Forretress.

*  And now that that's finished, I can FINALLY go Back to Gearen, and do more side stuff now that I got Surf, woo!

*  First I went to the Chrisola Hotel and finally bought a mon from the Casino, that being Helioptile, and then I went and caught the Tototototodile in the pool too, and shortly after, went to Sheridan, surfed, and caught that Heracross, and found a Link Heart, so breh, my Boldore, from all the way back then, FINALLY EVOLVED!

*  I found Dragonite's mail in the pier, ez, but then, i found him again in Goldenleaf, and I only found 2/4 of his letters, and I'd like to think I've gone everywhere in that town.

*  After that, I just went back to empty ol' Akuwa, and surfed, and found uh... was it Evergreen Island? The place with Piplup, and yeah, I caught one too, also planning on making this Buneary I traded for in the beginning of the game evolve, so I can trade it off again, for that Shroomish

*  And then, I went back to Kakori, and into the Gym, because I also took Roserade out of the team momentarily, because I suspected most bugs would be physical, so I took a Barbaracle instead, and BTW, Barbaracle's base stats are STILL wrong in this game. Because, normally a person would say them like "HP/Atk/Def/SpA/SpDef/Speed", but the PBS is "HP/Atk/Def/Speed/SpA/SpD", so because of that, its SpA/SpDef/Speed are swapped around, making it have 86 SpA, 68 SpDef, and 54 Speed, and opposed to it having 54 SpA, 86 SpDef, and 68 Speed.

*  Anyways, off with the Stat Rant, back to the actual Gym Battle... I led off with Luxray and Forretress, for simple reasons, Spikes, and Intimidate, though I swapped Luxray out into Gigalith, to put out the rain. After the first two were gone, I actually let the Golisopod sit there, since without rain, and after two Intimidates, it was no threat, so I kept focusing the other side. Until out came the Araquanid, who even without rain, it did about 83% of my Barbaracle's HP with one Liquidation, and then the Golisopod finished it off. Also, I should mention, aside from the first two turns of this battle, Kommo-o was out on the field the entire time, just tossing out Dragon Claws, since nothing could actually touch her.

*  And then the current Chapter ended, so might as well wrap this "episode up"

 

okay after looking back at this, here I was thinking it'd be short, but christ, it ended up longer than I expected, yikes.

Also, SEE????? I told you, I wouldn't have 4 mons dead again, it was only 3!! Let's see this keep up, though I don't suspect it will lmao

 

 

[OldSoulja]

So... its been more than a full 24 Hours since last "episode", and man, just, man, this is gonna be uber long, so I'll try to keep things short.

 

*  After deafeating Crawli... I think the first order of buisness was Aquamarine Cave right? right. Well, one thing I did not expect was battling Sam and Alex again, and well, Amida, my Luxray got crit by... i don't even remember what, and died. And to replace her, I scooped up Slinke the Helioptile that i bought from the casino.

*  In Telia resort, the next thing was the... Venam and Saki double battle right? Well, it was actually a pretty tame battle, except for when the Metagross came out, and I swapped out from Kommo-o into Forretress, and the Metagross outsped everything, and just Exploded, which killed everything on the field except my Forretress.

*  I'm actually losing track of what happened, because most of these so far happened yesterday for me, so I'm trying to remember.

*  Uhhh, after that was the... Madelis/Xen Grunt battle i think? well, it got a bit sticky when that Sharpedo and Heliolisk came out, and they were spamming Surf and Hyper Voice, I was just healing Kommo-o and Roserade while hoping they'd use some other move, eventually they got a low roll on Roserade, and I risked it, and it paid off, because at the end of the turn both my mons survived, and Roserade was on 7 HP.

*  I was actually pretty lost for a sec, bc i didn't know where exactly to go lol

*  But anyways, after all that, its... Angie time? which was yet another double battle, of course it was, 80% of the game is double battles. but yeah, uuhhh, Forretress was out the entire time, and so was Gigalith, until the Crabominable came out. Eventually, when the Cryogonal came out, I swapped into Feraligatr, but he caught with a Freeze Dry, so uhhh, that sucked. Also, to my surprise, the Cryogonal outsped my Heliolisk, and I was gonna try to Volt Switch out, and it would've killed me, but it missed Cold Truth, so I was able to save my lizard.

*  Took Grande the Incineroar on the team, since I didn't have either of those types, and Intimidate

*  The Aelita battle, again, caught me by surprise, and it wasn't really super difficult, but I'd like for her to tell me : Where did she find the Earthquake TM? i'd appreciate one too.

Also, Kommo-o almost died, because i wasn't expecting Brave Bird from that Blaziken

*  Now its uhhh Gro-- oh right, Texen? Texon? Texan? He's very irrelevant, so I forget his name, yeah who cares, he got obliterated

*  Now, Groudon, was.... kind of a pickle, I had to intellectually swap around between Incineroar, Forretress, and Kommo-o, for Intimidate, and baiting the Fire Punch to swap. Eventually, it ran out of Earthquakes, and it started Resting, so I went into Roserade, and Leech Seeded it, and later, when it starter RELIGIOUSLY going for Rest after waking up, I went into Roserade the same turn it Rested, and 2HKOd it with Giga Drain.

*  After that, I went to beat Kyogre, and it was mad easy, a single Thunderbolt did about 80% of its health, and bc of Heliolisk's Dry Skin, it couldn't Water Move me, but the Ice Beam still hurt, so what I did was go into Incineroar to bait the Water move to heal up, but it actually missed its Whirlpool, but the Rain healed me to the point to live the next Ice Beam and kill it.

*  The third Misfortunate Duo battle was, uh, interesting, Heliolisk kind of destroyed half the battle, Milotic, Honchkrow, and Gyarados. Also, the Milotic was actually HARD SWAPPED into the Thunderbolt, I just wanna say that.

*  Then Giratina ugh, I had to stall out of Dragon Pulse, so I could go into Kommo-o and kill it.

*  And then, the fight against Zetta and Geara atop Valor Mountain... there was just too much that happened, so here's a brief summary : My Heliolisk Forretress, and Incineroar died.

Heliolisk got simply outplayed, Gyarados was out, and I swapped into it from Incineroar, but it got Earthquaked. Forretress was just... I simply forgot that the Rock moves became Rock/Fire on that field, so it was 100% my fault. And then Incineroar died because... I simply had to let something go to swap safely into my Gigalith and take out the Dragonite.

 

So, hopefully this isn't TOO long, or at least, not as long as it would've been if I went into much more detail. And man, 5 deaths, guess this is "making up" for last time, when I lost 3 mons instead of the usual 4 huh.

Also, I wanted to include the Amber Battle in this too, but then i felt that might make it too long, which, I suppose wouldn't mean that much as its already mega long..

 

 

[OldSoulja]

So we're back, and well, this will probably be short, so let's get into it.

 

*  Well before anything, I took Roserade out of the team momentarily, because it'd be dumb to take her in the Fire Gym. And I also added Dede the Empoleon, Sauce the Talonflame, reliable the Krookodile, and Gorp the Alolan Muk on the team.

*  Like I said at the end of the last one, it was time for Amber, who to my surprise, was NO LONGER A DOUBLE BATTLE???!!! What kind of witchcraft is this??? but yeah, it was a decent battle, also, her Chandelure gave me a lot trouble, and I had to let my Talonflame die to send in my Kommo-o to kill it.

*  After that, its back to the past time, which, is more story related than anything, so not really much to go into about battling, though I did go and get the Weird Diary, and the currently bugged Black Sludge.

*  And then, we come up against Rift Garbodor, and the first battle was fairly easy, I just Leech Seeded it with Roserade, went into Krookodile, and 3HKOd it with EQ.

*  The SECOND Garbodor battle though, oh man, even though it was 5 lvls lower, it actually was quite tough, it did a lot of damage, and was super hard to punch through, so what I had to do was throw out a Leech Seed to negate its Healing in that terrain, and then I... I actually couldn't touch it, going into Krookodile was risky bc of Giga Drain being boosted, Empoleon could get Drain Punched, and the rest of my team got bodied by Sludge Wave, so what I did was stall it out of Sludge Waves, and then went into my Ribombee, and started Quiver Dancing to kill it.

*  And almost right after that, I ran into a battle with Amanda that I didn't expect. And of course, because it was yet another double battle, too much was going on to describe, but, there was Incineroar and Rhyperior vs Krookodile and Kommo-o, and they were Low Kicking and Megahorning my Krook, so I decided to go into Ribombee on those to get some momentum, but the Incineroar Flare Blitzed right as I did that.

*  After that I just did some side stuff, like the stuff with the demon who i forgot his name, was it... Dafaux or something? and then I spent some time in the past trying to find Narcissa, but I'm assuming I cannot complete that yet.

*  Now its time to battle Eric, and here's what my strat initially was : Blizzard with Mamoswine, and then Earthquake with it while alongside Claydol, but uh, I only really managed to get the first part going, because I had to swap Mamo out, as the Togedemaru came out. However, since I had not Earthquaked the Icy Field away yet, it came back to bite me, and the Electivire almost one shot my Claydol, and the Togedemaru killed it. Then It was Kommo-o and Krook, and I Protected with Kommo-o, and EQd with Krook, which killed both. then after that the Eelektross and Ampharos came out, and I went into Mamoswine and Gigalith, and well, essentially I just spammed Hyper Potions with Mamoswine on Gigalith, and then Gigalith spamming Cave Boosted Rock Slides to win.

 

Well... it WAS gonna be short, but then I went into a lot of detail. Also, three deaths, which means that next time, i'll have 5 or more deaths

 

 

 

[OldSoulja]

It's almost been a full day again, and well, I think, keep in mind "THINK" this should be a short one, because at this part, its more story than battling, which is no problem, but yeah

 

*  Well let's see... first major battle after Erick was.... the Bladestar Dugtrio dude? Well, he got put down the second Erin's Abomasnow came out. And since there's not much to say about him, I just wanna point out that in the first fight alongside her, Her Pokemon were around the 60's, and then, her Absol was lv 78 i think, and then against the Dugtrio dude, it went back to 60's.

*  After that, its Flora time, and I actually went into this battle very stupid, and had half a team weak to Grass(since Grass is SE on Steel for whatever reason there), but I ended up managing that battle without losing anyone with just Magmortar, Roserade, and Kommo-o. Also, I just wanna say, this is my least favorite field effect in the game, because of two specific things that to me, make no sense. one, being that Poison is only neutral against both Grass and Fairy, and that Grass is SE on Steel. like, I get that its like that because Grass Gym Leader, but those two just seem dumb. Also, I actually led off with my Gigalith in that battle just to get rid of the rain and swap out.

*  And now, we're in GDC, so of course, my first order of buisness was to explore, also, I'm slowly reaching new ground here..

*  Uh... let's see... important battles.... uh, there was that Bladestar Grunt battle in Talon's apartment, who both had mono grass and got thrashed by Roserade... was that cool?

*  Well there's a real one, the battle against Venam, which of course was another double battle, and of course too much was going on to explain, but here's one thing, I would've lost my Magmortar if it didn't outspeed and OHKO her Venusaur, so that was cool. And I had to kill that thing ASAP bc her Charizard was also out, and it was harassing Kommo-o with Air Slashes that I had to heal off, and I needed to bring in my Gigalith to handle it.

*  So not too long after that, its Zetta time, and man, Gigalith really carried this battle, it killed 4/6 mons on his team, the Dragonite, Typhlosion, and indirectly killed the Absol and Silvally with its Sand Stream lmao.

*  When I went to battle the Puppet Masters, I decided that I shouldn't be stupid, and took Kommo-o and Roserade out of the team momentarily, and added Ursula the Escavalier, and Cap the Bronzong, and man, I was so scared of this battle, but Escavalier alone, killed EVERYTHING, well except for the Mega Medicham, Aelita's Staraptor somehow lived a Psychic from it and killed it in one Brave Bird. But yeah, I Fell Stung that Beheeyem when it was low, and just murdered everything with X-Scissor, even through the Reflect.

 

And yeah, here we are now, treading in less familiar territory, and with... 0 Deaths this time? I'll probably get destroyed in the upcoming battles then..

 

*  Also, since this one was kinda short... there's one more thing I'd like to say : During the Darclight Mirror puzzle, I accidentally closed the game, and the game wouldn't open, which was my laptop's fault, not the games', and so, to kill time until it could launch, I only just then noticed that there were the PBS files in the V11 thread, so after I felt like a dummy, I actually went ahead and edited some of the Pokemon, and buffed a lot of things that needed it(Dustox, Crabominable, Butterfree, Girafarig, etc), and even some things that didn't... quite need it(Krookodile, Scolipede, Bisharp, etc) though those were smaller buffs, also a few rearrangements for Pokemon who need a set BST, like Samurott, Emboar, Goodra, Dragonite, Kommo-o, etc. And of course, I edited some lacking movepools, like Emboar lacking Fighting, Empoleon lacking Steel, almost all Grass/Poison types lacking Poison, etc.

Now I kinda wish I knew I could do this earlier, and maybe I would've restarted if I was maybe like, only after the Goldenwood Incident, but I'm waaaayyy too far in.

 

Also, I could technically put some of my fakemon in the game this way but then the game might feel a bit too altered, and it would take some work, so I'm not going to.

[OldSoulja]

Hiya, happy new years to everyone, and I'm back, with another... maybe short "episode"? I don't think much happened really, but I've decided to wrap this "episode" where I did, because of the place I did.

 

*  So, last time I beat the Pupper Masters, and... after that was uuhhhh.... I honestly forgot, did nothing happen between that, and going to the past? Well, if so, I decided to put Hermes and Bebe back on the team,

*  You know, noting only the important battles feels a bit weird, because it sounds like I'm skipping on a LOT of things in between.

*  So, anyways, fighting Vivian, who I see got changed from just mono-Rock to Rock/Psychic. But, I decided to lead off with Kommo-o, and started Dragon Dancing against her Tyranitar, and then just killed everything, though I was scared of a few things like her Sigilyph or Alakazam having a Focus Sash, but they didn't

*  After that the next important battle was against Pirate Valarie, who... actually was giving me a few problems with her Toxicroak, but then I burnt it with Flame Body from Magmortar, and started Dragon Dancing. again. And actually, her Vaporeon and Jellicent lived the +3 Drain Punch/Dragon Claw, but they couldn't do anything in return.

*  Now, I think its actually an OPTION to Fight Kenneth at the Princess' castle, but I chose to fight him, and I gave him the same treatment as Valarie and Vivian, except not from the lead spot, because I needed to find a good opportunity. I also do not remember what it was I set up on.

*  And now that all the back to the past stuff has been dealt with, Its time to prepare for Souta. And for this fight, I once again deposited my Roserade and Kommo-o, and took flof the Ampharos, and Scoob the Vanilluxe on the team, for obvious reasons.

*  Now, turn one of the battle, I think my Magmortar could've died, because his Skarmory went for Sky Attack and it missed. Now, I got super mega lucky against the Dragonite, first off, my Vanilluxe didn't get confused by Hurricane, then, I hit the Blizzard(out of hail, bc of Strong Winds), then I fucking FROZE the Dragonite who lived bc Multiscale(and Weakness Policy also was used), then the Dragonite stayed Frozen, and then I hit ANOTHER Blizzard. and yes, my only offensive move was Blizzard, because I was like "oh i have Snow Warning i don't need Ice Beam!" but didn't know about the strong winds. also, his Mega Pidgeot got ohkod by a single Thunder from Ampharos.

*  And so we've come to the last stretch, against Riftaelita, and well, really she wasn't the threat, she died turn one by the combination of Erin's Absol Psycho Cut and Kommo-o Drain Punch. The Rift Alolems were the real threats, with Contrary Superpower, thankfully, I crit one that was sitting at +2, but all of them were targeting Erin most of the time.

 

again, 0 Deaths, I don't trust this, I'm about to lose the first upcoming major battle yeah? why do I say that? well, for one, I'm not confident. and for two..

I've FINALLY made it to the Ren-union part, EVERYTHING from here on, is new territory, soooooooooo, yeah..

[OldSoulja]

Brothers and Sisters. It is time. TO END THIS HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA----

ALSO THIS WHOLE THING IS PROBABLY ALL SPOILERS,SO YEAH, I DON'T WANNA GET YELLED AT

 

*  So, first new thing in the new episode.... well, Important battle wise I mean, since that's what I talk about...

*  Uhhh.... I guess that one Battle VS Ren and his oh so lone Silvally was important? I mean, it was one, not overleveled Pokemon... so uhh, woo!

*  Gotta say, it was also nice to use a Giratina temporarily.

*  Well, at the end of the.... I forgot the name of it, but the ruins place in the badlands, you know? the one with the fucking TANKS in it? Well, during the climax double Battle, my Empoleon got hit by an Aura Sphere from a Clawitzer, and got brought down to like, 10% and then the Drampa next to it killed it with a Hyper Voice. So that's the first death in a while. I'm not surprised or upset, because honestly that Empoleon was letting me down sooo much. Added Seymour the Jellicent to the team in his place.

*  And from this point, I'm no longer me! I've noticed a good amount of this episode, you're playing as not the player. so for a sec, playing as Melia. and man, while playing as Melia, I finally used, and realized how awful Zoroark is. Also, two things, I think I've said it before, but Erin's team is so.... eclectic, its like all the kids that got chosen last for dodgeball, but I get its supposed to be an all-white team? Also, I was not aware of how.... cute Erin was, damn.

*  And from here, starts a long journey of being Ren, and well that guy on the surfboard with the visor was.... quite the battle really. It wasn't giving me any troubles... until a certain crustacean with a gun showed up again, and It pretty much killed everything except Greninja, because I had to play around it to weaken it so that Greninja could come in and kill it. Then Xurkitree came out and I flinched it to Death, though I had revived Flygon too just in case. Because I have a bunch of Revives in my bag that I have found over the course of this, that I keep forgetting to go to sell. same with all the Star Pieces and Nuggets i have...

*  After that, its Rejuv Corp time, and really, I thought I was just gonna go exploring the place, but I ended up going the right way. Also, it was quite a surprise to me that Anastasia actually had Pokemon. Also, I fucking KNEW there was something about Anastasia and Nastasia

*  And then, I became blind and couldn't see the obvious place I was supposed to go, so I spent a minute or two doing... nothing. But now, its time, to assume, my true character form, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

*  Anyways, Rift People time woo! Rift Huey was... not tough at all, just a Giga Drain and an Earthquake away. Also, even though I've only seen two of his Pokemon, I'm gonna assume he's using a Mono-Red Pokemon team. And Rift Reina, was, kinda easy, but my heart skipped a beat when his Swoobat's Air Slash almost OHKOd my Krookodile.

*  Now... Rift Gardevoir... which... for some reason the Cybernav doesn't wanna load up for me, so I have no idea what to expect. And well, long story short, she killed my Magmortar with one Sacred Sword from almost full, and I had to resort to Leech Seed, and Roserade being thicc to kill her. After the Rift Gardevoir went down, it just became a stall full heal war against the Kirlia and Ralts. The Second battle was a breeze, no need to even talk about it really. Added Kachina the Sigilyph on the team.

*  So now's another battle against Ren, except he has more than just his Silvally. And well, it went pretty.. confidence-killing? I sent Kommo-o against Greninja and I was like "pfft i live the beam ex" but it did like 80%, which was more than expected, and then I sent out Krook against Scizor to Intimidate it, and I'm like "might as well get some damage it can't kill me" but it almost killed me with a single Bug Bite, even after the drop. Also, where the FUCK, did he find the Scizor, between my time playing as him, and fighting him right there??

*  And after all that, it's finally time for the Tournament!!

*  So the first one was... interesting, except for the first dude. Man, the moment I saw that the other guy's Donphan was level 1, I KNEW he was trynna cheese me. And of course the cheese didn't stop at him, so the same though came to my mind when I saw my next opponent lead with a lv 100 Eevee, so I went into Krookodile right away, and Roared, and then the game went from there. Also, yes, I put Roar on my Krookodile, because I didn't have much better options, and because just in case.

*  Now, ROUNDO TWO. I was expecting similar levels of cheese to be honest. The First guy was uh, interesting. I lead off with Kachina, and murdered his Hitmonlee, then the Charizard took like 58% from one Psychic, and it went for Inferno Overdrive, which I barely live. and then out comes the Breloom, who I simply tried to Air Slash, but it had a Focus Sash, and it killed me with a Rock Tomb, because I was too scared to Heal. The Second one was nothing special. But then comes Fakeanon, and if his Swellow had a Flying type move, I woud've lost right there, because Roserade was my best bet against it, since it was the Boomburst set. Then Glalie came out, and again, I had to use Roserade, because her SpDef is just too thicc. and then I had to swap her out to take out the Espeon with Krook.

*  And now, the last round. I... honestly don't even remember what the first two people were.... so uh, let's skip those. Oh, also, added Apche the Yanmega on my team.

*  ADAM TIME. Now, when he first led off with his Tyranitar and I saw the seed, I paused, and reset, because I wanted to see if the field roulette was guaranteed to stop on Inverse for that one, and lo and behold, it was. So, I came up with a new strat. took Tattoo the Venipede I had out of the PC, trained it up. taught it a few moves. And then, here's how the battle went : Intimidated the Tyranitar twice. Sent out Scolipede, and started Iron Defense, and BOY that came in handy, since every thing on his team knows damn Slash and Burn, which was x4 effective. Eventually, I got to +6 Defense and +6 Speed, with Super Effective Poison Jabs. For once, I felt like an NPC, I had the unstoppable force, that needed to get crit to be brought down. and well, I DID get a bit spooked when the HP bar moved a bit faster when his Aerodactyl went for Slash and Burn. Also, Scolipede has Baton Pass, so that was my backup plan

 

So yeah, that's it I suppose huh... This Nuzlocke is finished. Well, uh, what can I say? It was a fun week of doing this, and I... don't know, should I revive this thread once V12 comes out?

But yeah, this was a pretty great new episode, and not just because of the new story part, but also because of the revisited old areas. I enjoyed it.

I also really need to work on my big emotional ending speech game.....

I also need to go do a ton of side quests, in the meantime.

Now excuse me, but its almost 4 AM as I'm typing this, and my arms are exhausted. peace!