Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Route 120 & 121

So with a new gym badge on hand, I began my adventure down route 120. While there wasn't too many trainers of issues, that one lady with a Milotic certainly gave me some trouble, I actually had to use a bunch of healing items to make sure no one died in that fight... if only I actually led the battle with Funghiness. But how was I suppose to remember that an ordinary trainer would have a Pokemon like that? Also no new wild Pokemon for a very long time because of how long route 120 was and how it got wasted on a Linone...

You know what I was just saying about route 120 being long? Well, apparently it wasn't as long as it looked. Especially if you're dodging all the trainers you can for the sake of your Pokemon's safety. But now that I'm in route 121 maybe I can catch something cool? What do you know? Next step I take after that I run into a wild Pokemon.... and its a Shuppet. I was able to weaken it with Zip'd and actually catch it. But what to call it? After much thinking and failing to come up with names that relate to dark cold or miserable cold feelings I decided just to call it sullen. After all, it is a negative feeling, which Shuppets feed off of. Into the PC for now Sullen, but it was still nice to catch you neverless, I may need you for the future.

Before I head off to use my free heal, I come across team Aqua, who are talking about doing things over at Mt. Pyre. So that's a place to check out in the future. Dodging the rest of the trainers on this route for now, I finally made it to Lilycove City. With a free heal for reaching the town and a free heal for catching a Pokemon, plus potions being cheap to me at this point of the game and having the ability to fly to a town that sells them if I run out of them for my Potion for Pkm Center rule, I think I can go back and battle all the trainers I avoided before without worry.

New Deaths: 0

Total Deaths: 1

New Party members:
Sullen the Shuppet

Team:

Sheocka the Manectric Lv. 36
Lady Tenti the Tentacruel Lv. 33
Hurracane the Pelipper Lv. 36
Nimbus the Castform Lv. 35
Dubstep the Loudred Lv. 36
Code Red the Camerupt Lv. 36

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Weather Institute & Gym Leader Winona

So I cleared the Weather Institute.  No problems, not even with the Admin. The only story even worth telling was I gave Sheocka a prism berry because I couldn't remember if she had a Zubat/Golbat or not. On her last Pokemon I decided to let Sheocka stay in to Thunder Wave it, just to be on the safe side and her Pokemon Swagger me. Giving me a free attack boost due to the prism berry. So Sheocka swept the admin all by herself, 'cause who am I to turn down a gift horse. What is more worth mentioning though is now I get my own Castform! This thing is easily one of my favorite 3^rd gen. Pokemon right with Aron. Not sure if I want to use it on my pretty established and train team or not though.

Up ahead, I find May around the place and we fight. It wasn't really much trouble at all. For each of her Pokemon I had a Pokemon that countered it pretty well. Beating her earned me the HM for fly. Fly is decent but its not as good as I remember it being. It's only slightly stronger than Wing Attack and takes two turns, granted with a few exceptions I'm invulnerable to attacks so in those cases it's like a 1 turn move that takes more of my time. I'll hold off until after I get the badge that lets me use it outside of battle because if it wasn't for it's convince in traveling, I wouldn't be teaching it to Hurrcane ever to be honest. Wing Attack is already pretty good in comparison.

With that I make it to Fortree City and begin exploring. I can't get into the gym quite yet, so I just explored around town and got the Hidden Power TM. Want to teach it to someone but don't know who has what type of Hidden Power so maybe I'll play around with that later. So onwards to route 120. A new route with new Pokemon and new possibilities to widen the variety on my team... and it's a Linone... well, technically since Mr. Pickup isn't evolved that's a new Pokemon so I I caught it. I'm calling it Lucy because it's a girl and there was something lucky about it... probably that it should be lucky I actually bother to catch it. Probably should of just waited and caught that Kelcon in that scripted fight, but no, I had to knock it out.

Well at least I can go to the gym now, but 2 of my party members are weak to flying types so they'll need to sit this gym out... and I have a lot of Pokemon that are weak to flying sitting in PC... best two I have are my new Castform and Lady Tenti so I gotta train them up to be close to the rest of my team in case I need them. That could take awhile. Also the reason I haven't gave Castform a nickname yet is because it joined me without giving me the option to give it a nickname. So I got to backtrack all the way to the name rater to take care of that as well. So after making it back to the name rater I name my Castform Nimbus, after the type of cloud because that's the only cloud name I can come close to spelling on my own.

Since I was all the way at Slateport with plenty of money to spare, I decided to buy 2 Irons and 2 HP Ups for Nimbus to help make him into something useable without dieing in battles. What disappoints me most about Castform is that it's one of those Pokemon who really need an evolution. It's got a cool concept but it just doesn't seem to have the stats to back it up. Since this is the main game maybe it'll be able to hold it's own though? I hope. I also withdrew all my Rare Candies so I can use some of them to speed up the level-up process but not until I battle with them a bit first so the level ups are more worthwhile. So a little training later, Nimbus learned Weather Ball and Lady Tenti evolved into a Tentatcruel. I used a few of my PP ups ...well up to increase the PP of Weather Ball since it's pretty low for a move only slightly more powerful than Powder Snow. Actually, just looked it up on Bulbapedia and it increases to a base power of 100 in the weather, I just had a feeling it changed base power somewhere. For some reason I thought it was more powerful in the sun.

So I decide to finally head to the gym. Getting through the gym trainers and puzzles wasn't much of a problem. Even Nimbus and Lady Tenti were able to handle them, no problem. So I got to the gym leader... and then decided to train some more to round up Nimbus and Lady Tenti's levels from the experience they earned from the trainers. So then came the moment I've been waiting to get over with, the gym leader fight.

Sheocka was able to take care of most of the Pokemon on her own. The only Pokemon really even worth noting was that cursed Alteria. It was the second Pokemon she sent out. I decided since it was a dragon/flying type to give Nimbus a chance. I could of set up the hail for the stab weather ball. However, I thought since it was 4X weak to ice that Powder Snow would do plenty. However, it barely even did a quarter of the Pokemon's health. I would of set up the hail then, but that Alteria started Dragon Dancing which got me in panic mode. I was begging the game for the freeze, but I didn't get it. After two Dragon Dances it went for the Earthquake... earthquake. I forgot this Alteria had that, despite it being the major issue with this gym when I was playing through this game with a Pikachu family line only run.

I watch Nimbus's health crawled down... and it only went down to around half. I had a huge sigh of relief because I was worried Nimbus was a goner. But I wasn't sure what to do next. I considered to switch to Lady Tenti to take the hit. But I decided to stay in and beg for the freeze... thankfully I got better, I got the critical hit, finishing the Pokemon off. It was incredible, I'm real glad I didn't switch to Lady Tenti. In my panic, I forgot Lady Tenti was weak to Earthquake, there would have been no chance of its survival if I made that stupid play. Also Nimbus basically saved Sheocka's life, since I completely forgot about Earthquake on that Alteria. If I kept Sheocka in, that cursed Alteria would of Earthquaked Sheocka to its death. Instead, Nimbus was able to gain the glory of the gym and Sheocka was able to sweep the rest of the gym.

So with a new badge obtained, I can move on with my adventure. I really want to use Nimbus on my team, but with how well rounded my team currently is, I'm not sure where I would put him. It will be great to hold on to it though, since Ice types are rare to get in Hoenn so Nimbus will be able to act as my ice type when I need it. Plus it is a Nuzlocke, so I can't forget that I could loose a friend any time in this adventure. I'm especially worried about Zip'd just because it is an early stage bug type and those Pokemon tend not to be too strong late in the game, it's pretty amazing how far he's gotten as is. However, with its current move set, I don't plan on losing him any time soon. Well in the meantime, I did a little bit of training to get Nimbus up to the rest of the team in case I find a place for him on it and might as well train Zip'd while I'm at it since he's starting to fall a little behind with the levels. Afterwords, I suppose I can go on with my adventure... but is Hurracane really the only Pokemon on my team that can learn fly? ...yeah he really is the only Pokemon out of all the ones I own that can learn fly...

New Deaths: 0

Total Deaths: 1

New Party members:

Nimbus the Castform

Lucy the Linone

Team:

Sheocka the Manectric Lv. 36

Lady Tenti the Tentacruel Lv. 33

Hurracane the Pelipper Lv. 36

Nimbus the Castform Lv. 35

Dubstep the Loudred Lv. 36

Code Red the Camerupt Lv. 36

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: First water routes and Route 119

So with my new found surf, I begin my surfing adventures by heading towards Dewford. In the process I came across some new routes so meaning more chances to get new wild Pokemon. Though I swear the only two wild Pokemon you can find are Wingull and Tentacool. Considering I already caught a Wingull, that means the only new Pokemon I got was a Tentacool, which isn't all that bad, but I wish there was more wild Pokemon I could get in these waters. I decided to name it Lady Tenti. I forget the reason, but I swear it wasn't just for the pun.

When finally making it to Dewford, I got something I've been looking forward giving to Zip'd for a long time, the TM for Sludge Bomb. At long last, Zip'd finally gets something decent he got STAB (same type attack bonus) from. Continuing onwards just so I can get all the trainers in the water I missed while on the boat, Code Red evolved during that training and learned Rock Slide in the process. So if I'm not mistaken, that means Dubstep is the only one who has yet to be fully evolved. This team is coming along quite nicely.

So I stopped by the sunken ship, but I'm not sure if I want to do it yet. I can't fully explore the place till later anyways but I might be able to at least pick-up some items, money experience from trainers. I eventually decided to go in since I need something to do while rendering videos anyways. Picking up some minor items and batting some trainers later I came across the TM for Ice Beam. Which will be very useful, though I'm going to wait a little bit before teaching it to one of my Pokemon. With a little more trainer training I made full circle over to Slateport and doing so I can head back to Mauvilve City.

I decided to run Wattson's little favor because the reward you get could be real useful. ...of course I derped again and forgot new Mauvilve was a new area so I could catch the first wild Pokemon I saw, if I remembered that. >_> Oh well, at least I already have a electric type on my team. So I did that task and picked up the Thunderbolt TM. Heck, while I'm in a sidequesting mood I'd better take care of that fossil too. So I get that resurrected but what to call this Anorith? After a bit of thought, I decided to call him Lloyd, I believe like the character from the Tales game. I was thinking about knights so I was leaning towards Flynn but I decided to go for Lloyd. I'm honestly not sure if Lloyd even has anything to do with knights in his game, but that's the name.

Well, at least with all my sidequesting out of the way I can move on with the game. So I went back over to Mauvilve and surf over to the right to get to a new route. Fighting trainers along the way, including the interviewers, Zip'd leveled up and finally learned Silver Wind. At long last I have a bug type move. Anyways, wait, new route? New wild Pokemon! After a quick talk with Steven I can head into that grass and get a new Pokemon! And it's another Wingull... I didn't even think they appeared in the grass on this route.

I was gonna talk for a fishman for experience and it turned out that he was the guy that gave me the good rod. It's about time I got a new rod. Too bad I already gave my shot at trying to get a wild Pokemon for this route. Oh well, it'll be good to have since I think I already have all the water Pokemon I can get from surfing and the old rod probably can't get be anything better than Magikarp. Well, might as well head off to the berry master to claim all of the berries. So after that, time to head upwards and with this is a new route with a new chance to hopefully get a new Pokemon and it turns out to be an Oddish. Granted, I don't really need more grass types but it feels like I haven't caught a new Pokemon in a long time so I'll take it. I was able to actually catch it but what to name it. I got it! Tulipnia since it happened to be a girl. Sadly Tulipnia is gonna sit in the box for a very long time now.

So I finally made it to the Weather Institute, fighting all the trainers along the way. There's a bed to rest my Pokemon and my team has well earned that rest. Sadly the place has been taken over by Team Aqua, so I'll have to take care of them later.

Total Deaths: 1

New members:

Lady Tenti (Tentacool)

Lloyd (Anorith)

Tulipnia (Oddish)

Current Team:

Funghiness (Breloom) Lv. 35

Zip'd (Dustox) Lv.35

Hurracane (Peliper) Lv.35

DubStep (Loudred) Lv. 34

Sheocka (Manectric) Lv.34

Code Red (Camerupt) Lv.35

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Gym Leader Norman

So after going out of the gym, May told me the subtle hint that I should to Nuzzle's(my Nuzlocke character's name) father and his gym. But more importantly, I got the GoGoggles, which will finally let me go into that desert route and catch a new wild Pokemon as well as get a fossil to turn into a Pokemon. I even checked to make sure there were no other grass I could of gone into in that route, and I'm good! I'm real excited for this since this is the one place in the game you can get a Trapinch in the game which would allow me to have a Flyagon, one of my favorite 3^rd gen Pokemon. But knowing the jynxing luck I'm probably not going to run into it now, but since the worst thing I could run into on the route is a Sandshrew, I'll be getting something decent no matter what. Really hoping for a Trapinch though, and if I can't get that, then at least get a Baltoy instead...

...and it's a Cacnea. Better than a Sandshrew I guess but I already have 2 grass types and one of them is a solid spot on my team... might as well catch it anyways... I think it's worth noting while training for the gym, PlumpPickl learned Knock off. I thought it would be cool to actually have a move of a different type but it's incredibly weak. At least that makes it good for weaking up wild Pokemon to catch. Well I got the Cacnea... what to call it? Well, it trolled me out of getting a Pokemon I would want to use, it has a troll face... I was gonna call it troll plant or something silly like that but then I remember “from a certain Tales LP I'm watching” *cough* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4vdnwOh0rc&feature=BFp&list=WLDA41650C99666ACA , about Jade who take about every chance he gets to troll the party. So this one named after you Jade. With some “..” after it to get the point across. Time to put Jade in the box where all will be safe from his trolling from now on... hopefully.

Well at least I can get the fossils... one of them at least. Well the Pokemon from the root fossil is my favorite of the two, but I already got 3 grass types now... I guess I'll for the claw fossil. Hopefully I won't need to rely on either of them but at least I got a wider range of types by taking the claw fossil. Bye bye root fossil, it hurts you more than it hurts me. Well after picking up Zip'd from the Day Care, I decided to leave my Zubat, sorry forgot what I called it, in the Day Care in its place. Zip'd is still a bit behind so I guess I better raise him up too. Zip'd leveled up enough to learn Light Screen... normally wouldn't use it, but I get the feeling I could use it to my advantage if I use it smartly so I got rid of Moonlight for it... I had to get rid of it eventually since items will be more reliable in this playthrough.

Well I didn't do much grinding, but after checking some levels, I had a good feeling I could get through the gym in one piece. Time to finally face daddy... Nuzzle's daddy that is. Decided PlumpPickl would be very helpful for this gym so I decided to bring him for this gym again. Dubstep sat this gym out in exchange. So first of all was the process of taking care of the gym trainers for the sake of experience. Most of them were incredibly easy... most of them. Each of the gym trainers specialize in the use of an item, X-item, healing, etc. I decided to lead with Hurrcane to get experience for him. When I saw him use the item for raising critical, or was it the power-based trainer? I thought it would be smart to use protect to scout out its move. But no, it just used sword dance instead. My heart kept racing as it kept sword dancing its attack stats to the roof. As I got close to defeating it, the Pokemon finally attacked. By some miraculous means, Hurrcane survive. But he barely had any health to spare, but my opponent barely had health to spare as well. I could heal, but what if he got a critical hit next time, then the heal would be a waste. I wasn't quite sure if another attack would finish it off but I had to take the risk. I go for the Wing Attack... and it went down! Hurrcane made it through the fight in one piece. What luck! Man words can not describe how lucky I was in that fight.

Thought that wasn't even the gym leader fight. Though I think I got an idea to make this fight fairly easy to avoid casualties. So the battle begins. He leads with Slanking... woah, wait! I thought he lead with Vigeroth. Lovely my plan is already backfiring. Though with Plumpickl and Shroomhiness I was able to fight my way through. Then comes the Vigeroth if I recall but between my two fighting types there wasn't any problems. Then last but not least was another Slanking! This time however, I was able to switch into Hurracane and get out my plan I've been so waiting to do. You see, Slanking is an immensity powerful Pokemon but what keeps him from being overpower is its ability that makes him only attack every other turn. Hurracane has protect, a move that prevents all damage guaranteed, unless you use it multiple turns in a row. Add two and two together and I think you know what this means.... this in a nut shell minus having to use a Leppa Berry, (http://www.nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php?p=7 )

So with that I have a new badge in hand and a useful TM it's onwards with exploration. First of all, pick up the surf TM so Hurracane has finally got a good water type move and also, the ability to actually progress in the game. First, I might as well pick up some new water type on the new routes I can now reach and pick up a good TM for Zip'd. What is it? Well if you haven't guess, I'll tell you when I get it.

Overall Deaths 1:

Team:

Funghiness (Breloom) Lv. 33

Zip'd (Dustox) Lv. 33

Sheocka (Manectric) Lv. 33

PlumpPickl (Hariyama) Lv. 30

Code Red (Numel) Lv. 32

Hurracane (Pelipper) Lv. 33

On standby

DubStep (Loudred) Lv. 32

Mr. Pickup Lv.14

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Archie and Flanery

So I went forward up the cable cart to face off against Team Aqua. Fighting against Archie's followers I got the feeling I would make it through alright. But I still was nervous considering once I went into this fight against Archie, there was no turning back. I lead off with Sheocka thinking he would either lead with this water Pokemon or Golbat. Turns out it was neither, he lead off with his Mighteyna. To play it safe, I paralyzed it before switching back to Funghiness. Worked out for me since that hound just kept sand attacking and then used bite once my Pokemon that resisted dark moves did it's attack, AI fail for the win. Besides that, the fight went smoothly and I was never in risk of anyone fainting. Better anti-climatic than to have death I say.

So with team Aqua out of the picture for now, it's time to head to the next town... wait that means going through a new route, so I get to catch a new wild Pokemon! …and the one time I'm prepared to catch a wild Pokemon, it turns out to be another Numel, so I didn't bother. I'm thinking of applying the “only catch one Pokemon of a species” since it's pointless to have to of the same Pokemon and it definatly would feel like I was replacing a Pokemon if I were to use another Numel or Wishmur if Code Red or Dubstep were to die.

With that, I make it to Magoniy Town... I think that's what it's called. On the way there I decided to check out the hot spring and I was offered a Pokemon egg. Well, I've seen other Nuzlocke challenges use Pokemon eggs and technically there's no other Pokemon I can get right in the town so it fits in the standard Nuzlocke rules “technically” so I decided to get it for now. If I remember the Pokemon that was in it, I have doubts I'll actually use it, but I may be surprised. So I guess I'll walk around with it while I train up my Pokemon for the gym.

During my training I decided to clear out all the gym trainers in advance for the experience and so I can assure that I make it to the leader with full health. Also decided to use PlumpPickl instead of Funghiness since Funghiness will be weak to the gym. Zip'd also gonna sit this gym out for similar reasons. I actually managed to get PlumpPickl up to the level of the rest of the team pretty quickly so I don't have to worry about him slowing the battle down, despite not planning on using him. The egg hatched as well, into a Wynaut, as expected. I think I might try using it for a little bit but first it has to get up to level at the rest of the team so into the day care it goes. By the way, her name is Wonda, like Wanda but with an “o” since it evolves into a Wobbuffet.

So after much preparation, I decided to take on Flanery. Boy was it the closest match I've had yet. I couldn't help but look at the levels of Flanery's Pokemon and by faith I saw that one of her Pokemon had Rock Slide so my orginal plan of using Hurracane on everything could have had disastrous results if I kept with it. So I instead put my trust in Code Red to take out the 2 Slugmas just in case she decided to lead with the one with Rock Slide. It seem like I was on easy ground when she sent out her Torkal but the truth was the battle was only getting started.

I thought Code Red could finish the job, but it kept paralyzing me with body slam and started using attract. It was a mad swap between Hurracane and Code Red while I tried to heal the other up. It wasn't going so well, but then I remember my other Pokemon. After trying to decide who would be able to take hits the best I decided to go with PlumpPickl to tank the attacks and sacrifice himself for the team, only if needed. So PlumpPickl kept out while I healed up Code Red and Hurracane it was a long struggle but it came to the point that I was determine to make sure nobody died in that fight.

Using PlumpPickl as a wall I drained the Torkal of all its special attack with its use of Overheat making switching in even more easy then before. Eventually Hurracane finished the job and got us a new badge, but I wouldn't of gotten through the battle without all three of those Pokemon. So PlumpPickl, Hurracane, and Code Red thank you.

Overall Deaths 1:

Team:

Funghiness (Breloom) Lv. 30

DubStep (Loudred) Lv. 31

Sheocka (Manectric) Lv. 31

PlumpPickl (Hariyama) Lv. 30

Code Red (Numel) Lv. 32

Hurracane (Pelipper) Lv. 31

On standby

Zip'd Lv. 28?

Mr. Pickup Lv.14

New members:

Wonda the Wynut Lv. 5

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Meteor Falls

So as I continued onward with my adventure down route 113, I was actually doing great avoiding a wild Pokemon while fighting trainers. Of course on the way back as Code Red was poisoned was when I ran into one... not that was an issue overal though

Also kind of wished it was something better than a Spinda, but hey, at least I was able to catch it. I gave it the name Teddy and was sent to the box right away. Hopefully to never see the light of day. Well, at least had antidotes still to take care of the poison. Weird, I never use antidotes this late into a Pokemon game. I guess the environment of a Nuzlocke is the reason behind this.

So after that, I manage to pick up the soot bag, not sure if I'll use this yet or not since I can get some good stat healing items.  We'll see how much grinding I feel up to.  After using my free heal for a new town I decide to go to the next route and take on the trainers... forgetting it was a new route and ruining my chance to get a Lotad. Well my team is pretty well set at this point and there probably isn't a place for a Lotad anyways, but I got to stop thinking like that... the Swablu I ran into next would of been nice, but Nuzlocke rules, gotta follow them if it's a mistake on my behalf.

Speaking of, I'm a little worry about how balance it is. I thought I didn't have a full team each with a different type but that was because I forgot about Zip'd.  I guess it's because I never use a Dustox for this long into the game. That and most Nuzlockes I see that use a Wurple or even Caterpie usually lose it to poisoning early on in the game.  I'm a bit worried for Zip'd since bugs like him aren't usually that strong to use late on into the game.  But he's got me pretty far as is, and I may be surprised by what he can do in the future.  Hey, if I catch I better Pokemon I can always save Zip'd from the burden of death by using it instead.  Assuming I stop KOing the first wild Pokemon I find on a route.

So along my way I just rock smash a random rock and a Geodude came out of nowhere.  Really not used to this.  It's still on the same route so I still can't catch it.  Shame.  In the process, I realized I never taught Strength to anyone.  It's a decent HM move so I should teach it to at least a Pokemon.  HMs are reuseable so I taught it just to Code Red for tackle and DubStep in exchange for Uproar.  Sure pound is weaker but Uproar was really getting to me and I rather have Pound since it has more PP for now.  It'll probably be forgotten by the time DubStep learns a new move anyways.  As for Sheocka, she can learn it too but I think I'll wait and see if she learns anything better since HM moves can't be forgotten until I get to a certain point in the game.  Speaking of HMs and TMs, I decided to look up where to get Sludge Bomb while grinding, since it would make an excellent move for Zip'd.  Turns out I can't get it until getting 5 gym badges even though I've already been to the place I can get it at.  Also looked up Dustox stats and it's actually a bit more defense than I remember, maybe he can last after all.

After that, I guess I'll go into Meteor Falls and see if I can catch another Pokemon... and it turns out to be a Zubat.  To be honest, I was kind-of hoping I'd run into one eventually, since I love using Crobat.  Sure there's better things I can get but I'll take what I can get. I decided to call him Zimon, (get it?  Simon expect with a "z" instead of a "s".) With that, there's a no battle required scene with Team Magma and Aqua and I can head out.  But first, healing, since I caught a new Pokemon.  Yay!

Well I thought I could catch yet another wild Pokemon but I realized I need to have surf in order to get over to the grass on this route... guess that will have to wait...  I got to go to the lifts back and instead of jumping down the cliff and having to go around that way, I'll just back track I still got to pick up my soot items.  Got a Blue and Yellow Flute.  Blue curing sleep and yellow curing confusion.  The best part?  I can use these items as often as I need to, they have unlimited uses. Yay!  Well I'm at the lift now and I think this would be a good point to stop after all a serious fight is coming up soon.  So with full health, and saving I close my game for now.

Deaths Total: 1

Team:
Funghiness (Breloom) Lv. 29
Zip'd (Dustox) Lv. 28
Dubstep (Loudred) Lv. 28
Hurracane (Peliper) Lv. 28
Sheocka (Manectric) Lv. 28
Code Red (Numel) Lv. 28

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Winstrate Family & Fiery Path

Well with the 3^rd gym done, I suppose my first priority is to catch Sheocka and Hurrcane up with the rest of the team. Sheocka had some rough times during grinding and of course I kept Hurracane as far away from that gym as I could. Since most of my team is still in perfect health from that gym, I decided to try and grind them up in levels before using a healing item.

Now that I'm done with the 3^rd gym. I'm seriously considering boxing Tin Timber for hopefully the rest of the run. Simple answer is I don't need two grass types and I rather use Funghiness because it's fighting and grass and doing good so far with both types. Of course, Plumppickl is a pure fighting type so it's a bit redundant in type coverage to have him too but until I catch more Pokemon to cover my teams weakness Plumppickl is certainly better than no Pokemon at all. A stater Pokemon probably would have the be stronger than Funghiness, but Tin Timber will still be around in case I changed my mind and you know... in case something terrible happens.

During my grinding Hurrancane came way too close to doom, but I was able to save him, thanks to the berries I put away. Can't believe I forgot to withdraw my Antidotes and Full Heals after the gym. Well, certainly am doing that before I progress onwards. Speaking of Hurrancane, thanks to the experience share, he was able to get enough experience to evolve into a Pelipper. Now the only to main members of my team not fully evolved are Dubstep and Sheocka. The latter who shouldn't be that far away from said evolution.

So I decided to take on the Winstrate family and what was I worried about? I took them all on without any worries of death what-so-ever. Didn't even get much experience or money from it but I guess a little experience is better than none. After that I took a trip to Vertanturf to complete the Rustbro Cave. One rock smash and a couple were reunited and I got the Strength HM. Despite not having the badge to use Strength outside battles I'm tempted to use it since Strength is a pretty good move for this point of the game. Anyways, I put PlumpPickl at the day care for now since I want Mr.Pickup around to get items while I fight the trainers. I might put him back in the party after I get some trainers taken care of but for now it'll be raised there.

So now that I cleared all the trainers before Mt. Chimney and there's a patch of grass right nearby so let's see if I can catch a new Pokemon. It turns out to be a Numel, cool! I could use a fire type and a ground type when it evolves into one. Now... what to call it? Well Mt. Dew is on my mind so I was considering calling it Lava Dew... but I went with Code Red. Maybe I do have Mt. Dew issues... so Code Red was sent to the PC, so I'm gonna go back and take him out so I can train him a bit... after I grind a little to make use of the free heal for catching a Pokemon rule I have.

While doing that, Sheocka evolved into Mangectric! I forgot that evolution was coming up so soon. Well that evolution certainly gave her enough health to fight on her own... if it wasn't for the fact the majority of the Pokemon on this route are ground types. I actually forgot Numel started as a fire/ground type well at least I got that mistake out of the way before it really bit me in the butt. Since I have to have Mr.Pickup in my party to get pass the Rock Smashable rocks I guess Zip'd will be spending some time in the day care as well while I raise Code Red.

Well into the Fiery Path since it's technically a new area time to catch another new Pokemon! It was a Torkal, which would have been cool despite having just caught a fire type... if I didn't faint it in the process! I swear quick attack barely did anything but Spark 1-hit KOed it.... I guess I underestamated Sheocka's strength. At least I have Code Red, I think his typing better balances my team anyways, plus he can evolve while Torkal can't. Guess it was faith. So I cleared the rest of the trainers in Route 111 and did some grinding to try and get Code Red up in levels to the rest of the team. Though I won't deny any experience I can get for the others in the process. Brought some Rare Candys along with me to speed along the process as well. Actually we'll be going pretty far, so I think I'm gonna take PlumpPickl and Zip'd out of the Day Care and put them in the PC for now so I'll have access to them if I need them in future routes ahead. Along the way of going back to the Day Care, I found Grimers appear in the Fiery Path. That stinks but again, it must have been faith. After getting my Pokemon out of there, I made my way back to where I was. There's a nice old lady who's willing to give my Pokemon a rest for free, so I should make use of that and make my way onwards later.

Deaths Overall: 1

Team:

Funghiness (Breloom) Lv.28

Hurrance (Pelliper) Lv. 27

DubStep (Loudred) Lv. 26

Sheocka (Manectric) Lv. 26

Code Red (Numel) Lv. 22

Mr. Pickup (Zigzagoon) Lv.14

Onstandby:

Zip'd, PlumpPickl, Tin Timber