Nuzlocke Challenger Found: Black Edition: royal

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Victory Road: The Beginning of My End - Part 31

Victory Road lies in wait ahead of me.

This is a scary place. Trainers will now have balanced teams and there will be a lot of them. The trail is long with lots of Pokémon appearing.

I take a deep breath...

... and head inside.

In the first area of Victory Road I don't run into a single Pokémon, so I head up the stairs and into the next area.

In here I run into a Boldore. I have one, one which is currently on my team. So I'm allowed to skip it and wait for the next.

The next is a Vullaby, this has never happened before... the rules say I can skip the first Pokémon

I encounter if I already own it, but the first two I've run into I not only have, but currently have both on my team.

After a moments deliberation I decide that I will give myself one more chance to find a new Pokémon that I don't have. If it is still another Totts or Pumprnickl then so be it.

I head into the next area and take a single step forward and a Pokémon appears. I'm ready to catch it no matter what.

It's a Deino! It's a Dark/Dragon-type. I'm annoyed that it is part Dark like everything on my team seems to be again, but Dragons are super strong Pokémon. I catch the little level 39 Dragon and name him Wallace.

I teach Pumprnickl Fly and head back to a Pokémon center to heal and to snag Deino out of my PC.

After heading back to Victory Road I start running into a lot of Durant.

These aren't horrible... ah... who am I kidding? I'm ecstatic that I didn't catch one. Licky tears through these Steel/Bug-types with no problem.

Deino steadily gets some decent training as I head further up the Road. I have to heal a few times out of battle and one time I accidentally used a Rare Candy on Xanadu, which I was saving to use them before the Elite Four, but oh well.

Then I see him... It's a trainer dressed as a kung-fu character. These have Fighting-types and have been the bane of my existence through both Nuzlocke challenges.

He sends out a Scrafty. I remember my own Scrafty...

I switch from Wallace to Xanadu, which I know Xana is weak to fighting so when he takes a Hi Jump Kick to the face that knocks him down to about 1/4 of his HP I get a little nervous.

But I'm fast and ten levels higher with a ton of attack. I attack Scrafty, but... he was faster...

He hits Xanadu with...

...another Hi Jump Kick...

And my strongest Pokémon's eyes slowly close for the last time...

I need to find a place to fly out of here, but I run into another trainer. It's a doctor. One that after you fight him he becomes a sort of Pokémon Center for you.

He sends out a Gothirita, which I have Wallace try to Crunch, but the doctor recalls his Pokémon and sends out a Leavanny (like the one that Burgh had so long ago). My Crunch took his leafy bug down to half health. I can take it out.

Leavanny uses an X-Scissor and...

My newest is now among my fallen comrades...

He heals my Pokémon after I have Licky finish him off. He even tries to heal the dead.

I make my way outside and Fly on Pumprnickl to a center. I bury my dead and fill my team up with Totts and Odessa.

I make my way back towards the top of Victory Road...

It takes some time, but with most of the trainers defeated and now with Totts knowing Strength I push a few boulders around and make it up much more quickly.

The last trainer to fight is a veteran who owns a Gigalith.

This is ultimately what Totts can become, but I have to trade him to do that, maybe eventually...

I send out Royal to take on this guy, which shouldn't be a problem. I'm nearly 10 levels higher and a Water-type which is strong against Gigalith.

After two hits Gigalith is still standing, but... Royal...

I... I... I have lost two of my three strongest on Victory Road. I even lost a Dragon. How am I supposed to beat the Elite Four now?

My Team:

Racksy (Stunfisk) level 42 - Route 8

Odessa (Cofagrigus) level 40 - Relic Castle

Pumprnickl (Vullaby) level 43 - Route 10

Totts (Boldore) 40 - Twist Mountain

Licky (Chandelure) 52 - Celestial Tower

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PC:

Shorty (Minccino) level 40 - Route 16

Chowchow (Liepard) level 33 - Route 9

The Fallen:

Wallace (Deino) level 43 - Victory Road

Xanadu (Krookodile) level 57 - Desert Resort

Royal (Jellicent) level 53- Driftveil City

Bigguns (Joltik) level 35 - Chargestone Cave

Gregford (Swasbuck) level 34 - Dragon Spiral

Cowface (Zebstrika) 46 - Route 7

Catapult (Trubbish) level 30 - Route 5

Cracker (Foongus) 31 - Route 6

Dexxter (Vanillite) level 30 - Cold Storage

Tumbles (Ducklett) level 29 - Driftveil Bridge

Conch (Liepard) level 34 - Route 2

Zkippy (Lillipup) level 15 - Route 1

Upstairs (Oshawott) level 12 - Nuvema Town

Butterball (Pansear) level 18 - Dreamyard

Yuko (Blitzle) level 15 - Route 3

Amasya (Roggenrola) level 18 - Wellspring Cave

Flathead (Timburr) level 17 - Pinwheel Forest

Woodrow (Scraggy) level 30 - Route 4

Cannot Catch At These Areas

Lostlorn Forest

Friday, September 11, 2015

My Past Even Gets Jelly - Part 27

The location that I am starting us off at is Driftveil City.

I head towards the water with Racksy newly learning Surf and head into the water for a single reason.

To catch a brand new Pokémon and the first that appears is a...

A Frillish! I can deal with that! It's a Water/Ghost-type, so actually... this will be the third Ghost-type that I have...

Great... my team is getting stacked with not just Dark-types and Ghost-types.

I catch the level 10 jellyfish and go to the next name on the list, which is actually Royal. So it fits extra perfectly.

I head into some super intense training for Royal.

30 levels worth of training. That's enough until...

Royal evolves into Jellicent!

I finally continue to make my way forward to get to Opelucid City after the long training session and back to Route 8.

There's a massive blizzard going on here and that reminds me to buy the TM at the Mart. Which is exactly what I do.

I save it in my inventory for later.

I'm about to finally reach the end of Route 8 when Bianca comes up to me and orders a battle from me! I'll give her a heaping plate full of battle if she really wants it.

Bianca has four Pokémon, which is what seems to be her limit.

She sends out a Stoutland, which would have been the final evolution of Zkippy...

I have Royal out first, but get nervous about any Dark-type moves he may have. I switch to Xanadu and her Stoutland uses Work Up. The blizzard conditions aren't the greatest to fight under and Hail hits them both. Xanadu is quite tired of the cold and Brick Breaks Stoutland which makes him pass out.

Next up, is her Simisage, which I send out Licky to counter. Licky is hit by Leer, but ends the round with a Flame Burst.

Bianca's next is her Emboar, which Royal wants a part of... Royal lets a strong Water Pulse go, but it isn't quite enough. Bianca must have thought something like this would have happened and I'm hit by a massive Assurance. Gladly, Royal's Cursed Body activates and disables Assurance, which is great. Hail hits us, but Royal's Brine takes out the rest of her Emboar and he goes down hard.

Her last mon is Musharna which Xanadu practically laughs at and is already knocked out.

She follows up the battle with some compliments to me and hands me a few Full Restores, which will be useful on things like Victory Road... if I ever make it that far.

Route 8 leads to Tubeline Bridge, which is just a giant bridge with tons of traffic underneath it. It does however give me an okay TM for Flame Charge.

But at the end of the bridge...

Lying in wait...

Team Plasma's ninjas. They take my arms and lead me to Ghetsis. Ghetsis starts talking like he usually does, which means it's time to tune him out. But I do remember hearing about legends and heroes and how everything that I am doing is for naught.

I also pick up that he trained and educated N, which is a little scary to think about.

He continues to talk about how only Team Plasma will be able to use Pokémon and then tells me that I am not worthy enough.

With that Ghetsis leaves me and as do the ninjas.

I'm left alone to go to Route 9, where a person literally throws a TM at me, which contains Fling.

I see lots of biker dudes around here, which means new training, but I also see... grass! That's a new area, which means new Pokémon!

I head directly into it and...

It's Conch! Or at least a Pokémon that looks like him...

I catch it, but it is no replacement for the original. The newest edition to my potential team is named the next name on the list. Chowchow.

With that... I finally take my first steps into Opelucid City.