Nuzlocke Challenger Found: Black Edition: zekrom

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Drayden: Dragons and History 101 - Part 29

I finally allow Iris to drag me into her house.

Inside Drayden is waiting for me and ready to sit me down for storytime.

I'm told that Zekrom and Reshiram were the same dragon that belonged to two heroes who were twins. The slightly older one believed in truth,while the slightly younger believed in ideals... whatever that means.

The two twins begin to argue about who is right.

Eventually these two twins and their argument becomes so intensely heated that the dragon they share splits into two. Reshiram goes to the olderish bro who believes in truth and Zekrom runs off to be with the youngin who believes in ideals.

Since the two dragons were once the same neither can win in fights.

These fights became so intense that they deal a ton of damage.

These brothers are smart and they cease the fighting and live peacefully separate from each other and then forever after the world is at peace...

That is until the twins have their own sons who begin the argument again, but they take it one step too far.

They ultimately destroy Unova.

At some point they end their fighting and help rebuild Unova with the help of their dragons.

Drayden ends his history lesson by telling me that Pokémon and people are meant to be united.

I need to know how to awaken Reshiram... so I ask them.

Drayden and Iris are stumped and have no idea how to do that.

Drayden then tells me that in the meantime, I should fight him at the gym, so he runs off to meet me there.

I have nothing better to do so that is exactly what I do. I head to the gym

The gym is all black and white and full of dragon statues.

I fight the trainers, which are all dragon trainers. I jump on switches which move the dragon statue's heads, arms and hands. This extends the pathways which bring me closer and closer to Drayden.

I actually feel like this gym is huge after a while and reminds me of the Snake Way in Dragonball Z.

Eventually I finally reach Drayden and start the last and final gym fight.

Drayden has three Pokémon, which is so far a good sign.

The first one he sends out is a Fraxure.

It is a straight-up Dragon-type, which is only weak against Ice and Dragon (at least in this generation).

I don't want to risk anything this late in the game and I send out Xanadu.

Xanadu jumps into the air and smashes into the ground starts off a massive Earthquake.

Fraxure goes down and Xanadu gets a little Moxie (boosts his attack everytime he defeats an opponent).

The next Pokémon in Drayden's team is a Druddigon.

Another pure Dragon-type, but has some decent stats and a better moveset.

Xanadu doesn't spend anytime lollygagging and Earthquakes Drayden's Druddigon to a knock out, and boosts Xana with another Moxie.

Last, but not least, is Drayden's Haxorus.

This brute is another pure Dragon-type and almost all Speed and Attack, which means it should go down quick and easy...

I keep Xanadu out and Earthquake...

His Haxorus goes down...

Wait. I won?

I get the Legend Badge and a TM for Dragon Tail!

That's it! I have all the badges and some pretty strong Pokémon!

I head outside and find Professor Juniper waiting for me.

My Team:

Racksy (Stunfisk) level 42 - Route 8

Xanadu (Krookodile) level 56 - Desert Resort

Pumprnickl (Vullaby) level 41 - Route 10

Totts (Boldore) 40 - Twist Mountain

Licky (Chandelure) 52 - Celestial Tower

Royal (Jellicent) level 50- Driftveil City

PC:

Shorty (Minccino) level 40 - Route 16

Odessa (Cofagrigus) level 40 - Relic Castle

Chowchow (Liepard) level 33 - Route 9

The Fallen:

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

Monday, September 7, 2015

You Can't Spell Dragon Without N - Part 25

Let's skip ahead a little bit. I'm currently inside Dragon Spiral Tower.

There is a huge explosion from up above, but I don't know from what. I head further upstairs and find Cheren hoping along some ancient pillars.

What is he doing? He'll break his neck up there!

I follow his lead and eventually run into a room where Cheren and Brycen are fighting a bunch of Team Plasma grunts. They tell me to go on ahead.

Like I need to be told twice...

I realize that there is a bunch of trainers and higher-ish level Pokémon up here so I can train up my weaker ones, like Bigguns.

I send him out against a Team Plasma memeber who kills it with a critcal hit from a High Jump Kick.

Well... that's great... I was hoping to use this tiny tick to take some initiative later on in the game. Try to keep it together.

I get nervous about training here and beat up the rest of the grunts with Licky and Xanadu. They don't even break a sweat.

I even get feel another explosion from higher in the tower. The whole place is shaking a lot.

Suddenly an old man named Giallo, which is actually also a great form of Italian thrillers in cinema, reveals himself as a sage. He was making a speech to his grunts, but I interrupt him and suddenly I'm surrounded by four grunts at once. All of them ready to fight me.

I sweep them all easily without trying myself or my Pokémon too much.

I head upstairs and there he is... N is standing with a black Dragon.

He tells me that he now has the power to take on the Pokémon Champion and rid the humans of the world of enslaving Pokémon. He then proceeds to tell me that the only way to defeat his plan is to use Reshiram, which needs to be awoken.

Zekrom then starts to fly around and swoops in and snatches N off of the ground and flies away for good.

Cheren and Brycen finally beat the couple of trainers that they were fighting a while ago and tell me that we all need to gather our forces to beat N. We meet up with Cedric who is surprised that Zekrom is real and he seems a little scared to be honest.

Even Alder joins us and says that he is scared of N. Mostly because Zekrom and Reshiram both nearly destroyed the world... by themselves. He thinks that it is a very, very good idea to go out and find Reshiram before Team Plasma tries to and to defeat N.

The only thing is that no one has any clue as to where to find Reshiram.

We all decide to go to the oldest place we can think of to look for clues.

Odessa's home. Relic Castle.

But first!

I head onto Route 8 before leaving, looking to find a replacement for Bigguns.

The first Pokémon I come across in this area is a...

Oh... great...

It's a Stunfisk. It's a Ground/Electric-type. It's not the best... but it will have to do for now. Plus it's also it has Electric moves, which will be good in replacement of Bigguns and Cowface...

I name the guy Racksy.

After capturing him I head into the Moors of Icirrus, which is also a new area, but all that I can really find in here are Stunfisk as well, since everything is frozen at the moment, due to winter. I head out and get ready for the long trek back to Relic Castle (since I cannot use Fly at this time).

I decide that back tracking will be a great time to train Pokémon.

Gregford is up first and is slowly taking things out in Twist Mountain as we head through it. He can even hold his own against Ice-types, because he has a Fighting-move.

That is... until a wild Vanillish take him out in a critical, super effective hit...

I feel a little bad at losing him, but I hadn't grown super attached to him. It's either that or I'm becoming comfortably numb to all the death in this Nuzlocke.

After heading through Twist Mountain I decide that I should go visit my old Audino training grounds to help boost some levels.

And that's the end of this post after the training here.