Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Pokemon Sapphire, My First Nuzlocke: Gym Leader Wattson


So as I started my Nuzlocke run for the day, I decided to take care of the trainers that were to the left of Mauville City. Just to get the money and experience out of the way while I'm grinding and have full health on the team. With some training, I finally got Funghiness to a high enough level to evolve! With that evolution it learns Mac Punch. Finally! A fully evolved Pokemon with a fighting type move. Just what I need for the upcoming gym!

BTW I got to stop watching videos when I go into new routes... I forgot to catch the first Pokemon I saw! >_> On the brightside I'm pretty sure it was a Rosella, which I wouldn't use considering I already have two grass types, but you never know what will happen in a Nuzlocke. Well bye-gones are bye-gones, I'll just have to be careful at the next gym and make up for my foolery in the next route I go to.

Sheocka did get poison in the process of training but I was able to make it back to the Pokemon Center without it dieing, granted I was watching it's health and if it got too low I would of used a Pecha Berry, still I saved myself a healing item. In the process I decided to check out the Verdanturf Town mart... and there are no more Potions so I guess I'm either gonna have to backtrack or drop Super Potions whenever I want to heal now... joy.

So I started to grind and thought before I use up anymore health and PP I might as well talk to Wally, who's blocking the next gym BTW. Dubstep made quicker work out of it than I thought with a simple Astonish. I was starting to forget I had that move. :P Hmm... this is interesting though. It seems like Mr. Pickup picked up a Protein from that fight. I guess it will go to DubStep, even though PlumpPickl has the least attack out of my Psychical attackers. It should be evolving real soon therefore getting a lot of attack and Dubstep had the second least amount of attack stat. Still really good with the health so let's see how many gym trainers I can take care of. Answer is enough to level PlumpPickl up to evolution.

So that takes care of all the gym trainers so I don't accidentally run into anyone when it is time to take on the gym leader. My team is still pretty healthy so I think I'll do some more grinding before I heal, then to decide if I should take on the gym leader. There isn't too much more I can do before taking on the gym. Trust me, if there was I would. Actually there's still the north but I still need Rock Smash before I can fully explore it. Might see what I can do depending on my team's levels after training. Speaking of, got another Protein, a few Ultra Balls, and even several Rare Candies from Mr. Pickup, so thanks to Mr. Pickup! You're awesome even when you're not on the main team anymore!

So with nothing else left between me and the leader, I take him on. First Magamite, which Funghiness takes out with ease. Then comes out what I've dreaded this entire game... Volbtorb. I've seen Nuzlockes where this guy takes out a Pokemon with him so I wasn't sure what to do... I decided to leave Funghiness out only because he had the best defense. I decided to lead off with a headbutt hoping if it didn't finish it off it would flinch it. Then the unthinkable happened, Volbtorb outsped me... and went for Sonicboom. Thank the lord it wasn't selfdestruct. But after my headbutt it lived in the red health. “Oh no!” I thought, “if it's gonna explode, it's gonna do it now”, and with Funghiness not having full health, I wasn't sure he could take the move.

After much thought, I finally realized, I have Mach Punch! I can finish it off before it even gets the chance to attack! But as I was going for the Mach Punch, Wattson went for the Super Potion, which completely healed him. If I couldn't get more than half damage with this Mach Punch Funghiness may not make it out of this gym alive! As I watch the Volbtorb health goes down... it goes to the orange and Yes! Half health! Funghiness can do this. With one more Mach Punch I take the Volbtrob down. I then give a sigh of relief, because the worst part, what I fear most about this gym was done... never to bother the team again. Granted there was still a Magneton to deal with. Despite Funghiness being pretty full in health, I decided to switch over to PlumpPickl, just to be safe. With some arm thrust and tanking a paralyzation, the Magneton goes down and I get a nice new gym badge. With it comes the ability to finally use Rock Smash and the TM for Shock wave. Overall, an easy gym, probably because of my grinding, but for this one especially, I'd rather be safe than sorry. Now that I don't have to worry about electric types as much, I think I'm gonna get Hurracane from the day care... and it learned Mist from the daycare...yay with all the sarcasms... well, at least I still have the important moves still. Yay for planning before sending a Pokemon into a daycare, this time without sarcasm! Anyways I suppose with that I'll continue my adventures onward!

Team:
Tin Timber (Grovile) Lv. 25
Zip'd (Dustox) Lv. 25
Funghiness (Breloom) Lv. 25
Dubstep (Loudred) Lv. 25
PlumpPickl (Hariyama) Lv. 26
Sheocka (Electrike) Lv. 23

On Standby:
Hurracane (Wingull) Lv. 23
Mr. Pickup (Zigzagoon) Lv.23

Overall Deaths: 1

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