Chapter 1: Humble Beginnings
Chapter 2: Celebrities Die in 3's
Chapter 3: New Friends Come, Old Friends Go, New Old Friends Come Then Go Then Come Again
Chapter 4: Smooth As Be'el's Bottom
Chapter 5: Final Destination
Version: Sapphire
Trainer: FURICHI
Badges: 8
Location: Between dimensions.
Status: You'll see.
So I kinda cheated.
First Pokemon in Victory Road:
Zubat.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Tried to leave.
Saw a Hariyama.
...
*throws ball*
Yeah. >.> I wasn't willing to go into the E4 without a good fighting-type.
Unfortunately the game wasn't willing to let me in WITH one, either, since ALAINDELON the Hariyama (Pelipper's coverage is redundant with Lanturn >.>) died to crithax while training. ;-; I taught it Brick Braek too. >.< I guess that's the game's way of telling me not to cheat...
Out of his loss, and I guess my fear of the E4 now that my plans had been foiled, I ground my team up to level 50. Which is overkill, I suppose, but I wasn't about to let all my hard work raising this team go to waste. The consequence of this was Wally was completely obliterated (I don't think my team was touched lol). But he's lame and has green hair so screw him.
E4 time. I sold most of my items, stocked up on Hold items that might be useful, bought a bunch of Full Restores, and waved sadly at the Revives, for this time, I wouldn't be able to spend money on them. ;-; I fixed my teams moves, read up on the E4's movesets, and headed off.
(As a note, I decided to break the "no items out of battle" rule here, since it'd be a bit ridiculous going up against high-levelled Pokemon when mine are in the yellow, and, getting a bit ahead of myself, a number of my Pokemon would have died had I not healed them beforehand.)
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Sidney
I expected him to be cake thanks to Hilda doing supereffective damage on 4/5 of his team, but a bit of early misshax thanks to Sand-attack ruined by Hilda sweep and Leech Seed forced me out, so the battle became a bit more complicated, especially when Absol got in a SD. >.> But Toujou and his Battle Armour pulled through and I defeated him with 0 casualties and only half my team damaged, none in the red. Again, this could have gone smoother, but it's good I'm getting all this unlucky hax out now, rather than later, if you think that way.
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Phoebe
Phoebe really scared me, especially her darned Dusclops with EQ+Ice Beam threatening half of my team. >.< Toujou took it down though ( with 0 Ancientpower PP left, lolpressure), and the rest of her team fell to Be'el Crunches and some Hilda Surfs. Two members of my team ended up getting poisoned from Toxic...exactly why I broke the no items rule.
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Glacia
Toujou and Hilda worked very well in this match. Toujou destroyed her Glalie, then I switched Hilda to take the Surf and start Tbolting. I had to do a bit more switching and healing shenanigans against the next Glalie, but Hilda managed to take him out. And then her Walrein came out.
Walrein used Sheer Cold!
Walrein's attacked missed!
The few seconds that first sentence stayed on the screen was one of the scariest moments of this entire run. >.< There's no way to tell, but the Lax Incense I put on Hilda may have been the deciding factor in whether she lived or not. But she never used Sheer Cold again and Hilda Tbolted her Walrein for victory.
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Drake
Drake was the reason I gave Dragon Claw to Oga, but he never ended up using it. Alain basically swept his entire team, and he did it with style. Ice Beam left his Shelgon with one HP, and it missed with Rock Tomb, meaning Drake used a Full Restore on a crappy Pokemon that was about to be KOed with Wing Attack+Ice Beam anyways. Alain took Flygon's Dragonbreath and KOed with Ice Beam, froze Altaria after it DDed and finished with Wing Attack (Drake didn't Full Restore), took a critical hitted Dragonbreath from his other Flygon, survived with
1HP and got paralyzed, and KOed it. Then he took a Dragonclaw from Salamence (I had to heal him first turn, but the first one missed thanks to Lax Incense) and Ice Beamed, which should have left it with enough damage to make Drake heal him, but the Sitrus berry pushed it out of that range, allowing Toujou to come in and Anicientpower without problems for the win. I had new respect for Alain after this battle.
At this point, I still hadn't lost any team members, but Steven was a great worry to me. I planned out what I would do for each Pokemon, healed up, and went on to the final destination.
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Steven
The first few rounds went as planned. Aoi 2HKOed Skarmory with Flamethrower (it managed to get up Spikes, but w/e) and he went to his Claydol, as predicted. I went to Sceptile to take the EQ, and Leaf Blade 2HKOed, though not before it got up a Reflect, which was somewhat of a nuisance, as I was planning on using Aoi's Poison Fang to deal the bulk of the damage against his Cradily, which, as I predicted, was his next switch-in. So I Flamethrowered.
And then bad things started happening.
Cradily took the Flamethrower way better than I expected and responded with Ancientpower. It didn't KO, but OMG +1 TO ALL STATS. Fearing that Aoi wouldn't be able to take another, I went to Be'el to take the next AP. Reflect went down, so I EQ'd. It didn't do much, and now the Pokemon I was counting on for Metagross was in red health, while Cradily was near full health thanks to Giga Drain. I switched in Oga to take the next Giga, and then went to Toujou to take the Sludge Bomb; my little plan worked, at the cost of weakening my Pokemon from Spikes, and Toujou getting poisoned in the process. But again, I had underestimated Cradily's defenses. Metal Claw barely dented it, while Ancientpower brought Toujou down to half-health, and worst of all, Cradily had gotten ANOTHER +1 to all stats. Without really thinking, I used Protect, since I was almost sure I was going to be outsped and KOed, though healing didn't cross my mind for some reason. I did heal next turn, but Ancentpower critted and basically meant I had wasted a Full Restore, because Toujou was knocked out. ;-; I went to Alain to try and outspeed and get some freezehax (I gave him a Quickclaw), but he Giga Drained before I could do anything, and I had lost another teammate before I knew it. >.<
At this point I thought things were over; Aoi's defenses weren't strong enough to hold against another Ancientpower, and the damage I was doing was too pitiful to KO him before crithax got the best of me, especially with all those boosts.
But then he Giga Drained.
I hadn't realized it until now, but the Protect I used with Toujou had saved Aoi's life; I had managed to PP stall it out of Ancientpower PP! It might mean wasting all my Full Restores (I was still left with 19 at the end, FYI), but I could do this with a lot of burns/poisons from Flamethrower/Poison Fang. Eventually, after many Full Restores (from both sides), Cradily Struggled himself to death.
But a problem came in the form of Aggron and his EQ. Hilda obviously couldn't take it, and Sceptile had been weakened way too much. Be'el could absorb the EQ, but if Aggron used Dragon Claw or survived Be'el's EQ, I wouldn't be able to beat Metagross without crithax. Though it pained me to do so, I decided that the only thing I could do was sacrifice Aoi to heal Be'el. She had done her role, and I needed to be at full health when taking on Metagross. Aoi died from EQ ( ;-; ), but Be'el took revenge with an EQ of his own. I was left with Oga, Hilda and Be'el once more...could this be fate?
I had hoped he would send out Armaldo at this point, so I could heal up my team members and prepare for Metagross, but Steven jumped the gun and went to Metagross straight away. This was the reason I gave Be'el Soft Sand.
Be'el used Earthquake!
Metagross lost 70% of its health!
Metagross used Meteor Mash!
It's a critical hit!
Be'el lost 100% of it's health.
Be'el died.
Nooooooooooooooo. T_T I don't know if Be'el could have survived anyway, but he was the one I was counting on to beat Metagross. Worse, Meteor Mash had given him a +1 to attack and the Sitrus Berry pushed him back into the green. I sent out Oga, healed him (Metagross missed with Hyper Beam), and did a bit of damage with Leaf Blade before another critted Meteor Mash got the best of him. <_> I sent out Hilda, and just to mock me, Metagross used HyperBeam, despite knowing EQ, and still KOed me.
I lost. >_<
It's pretty much impossible for me to continue this run, since my box is filled with garbage Pokemon for the most part, and I have very few unexplored routes left, meaning I'd pretty much have to grind them all up to 100 to win, which isn't fun or challenging. So I'm done.
Thanks for reading.
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My Team:
Kanzaki was always loyal to me, and his Pick-up really helped me on my run. He's the only one who deserves to be remaining on my team before I leave this file for good.
My Box:
Worthless. >:/
Cemetery:
My cemetery no longer looks like this, since I released all of my Pokemon after I took this picture. I really liked my team. ;-;
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Despite my loss, this really was a fun experience, and I plan on doing another one soon, likely on FRLG with a cool, alternate mode of Nuzlocke I found. It has the same rules, but no catching; you start the game with 6 randomized Pokemon at level 5 which you use throughout the game. They die, they're gone. You can also get another (random) Pokemon after each gym battle at the same level as the leader's highest leveled Pokemon, though that's an optional rule (but I intend to follow it). Hopefully I can do better then. ^_^
), I go by the "one for one" rule; I can catch as many shinys as I want, but I have to release (or box, is what I'm doing) the Pokemon that I caught from the same route, or else release (box) the shiny. Trading would obviously better, but I'm on an emu, so... >.<
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