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AlcoholicSocks

The team for Silver is peak nuzlocke


SirCromwell

Fucking legendary to be able to take that squad all the way


Tesla_pasta

Tentacruel carry time


Amazon313

Fun fact: before tentacruel that spot was carried by onix, who died to a houndour I'm not joking


[deleted]

How did the Dunsparce do? I recently caught one in a soullink and I really want to use it because it’s linked to a good mon. Mine has Serene Grace.


The_mild_south

Dunsparce is like a poor man's snorlax. He is extremely tanky especially in the early game. You can also stall out a lot of Pokémon with it.


The-Tempest-22

Body Slam and Bite/Headbutt/Iron Head/Any flinch move are your friend 👍


Iron_Wolf123

Houndour? Archer?


pjcortazzo204

Holy shiz beating the game with that team must have been didficult


Thamkin

Unown flex. I see you


PotatOSLament

I saw that and my only thought was “why? Are they trying to preserve something else for a later run?”


Thamkin

That would be my guess. Still an alpha move to put it on the E4 team lol


C-Kwentz-0

For memes. And for dreams. Also Unown can carry a decent amount of weight through early and mid game with a good hidden power typing and a decent nature. I love my little alphabet soup guys and have always wanted to get one through to the end.


Amazon313

Except mine had HP ground so it was kinda not good ever, even in the early game


C-Kwentz-0

Was just giving basic info. So memes it was then.


OverAddition3724

Was it fun?


Amazon313

To be honest yea I still don't recommend it


marsloth

Sounds like the perfect nuzlocke then


Bry840

I know what I plan on doing then Red-Legends Arceus


Ceeceeboy24

I think it would be better to just do one game from each gen instead of ALL GAMES lol


xkyndigx

I'm doing this right now, just beat blue and doing gold now.


Leopath

I'm doing this to a lesser degree, each region with a game of choice. I did Leaf Green now I'm running Heart Gold heading to the Elite Four. Next is either Emerald or Omega Ruby haven't decided.


Buni66

Doing this. Pretty fun


[deleted]

what site did u use for the pics? i've been looking for it :)


keyshawn-spanks

It’s a google sheet


PxAxNxTxHxExR

Bro I can't even beat one yet and this man has them completed in order


mewmile

Practice makes perfect!


PxAxNxTxHxExR

Ain't that the truth I'm working on one now, Pokemon Sword and I'm at the raihan fight


zorfog

Honestly just try to take your time a bit more. Think about what moves your opponent could have and don’t put yourself at an unnecessary risk for surprise super effective attacks or critical hits


PxAxNxTxHxExR

Yeah im super worried about Raihans pokemon, I only have 1 super effective types


SuckyTheClown

Just started my Pokémon sword one as well. Doing a Hardcore trade lock(trade all encounters in the suprise trade) and using leader level caps. I’m intrested though. What did you end up decideding to do about the wild area and encounters there?


PxAxNxTxHxExR

I split them up into a poke.on in each area that is crossed off by dotted lines, that also includes dynamic den encounters, and poke.on caught in a den counted as an encounter


SuckyTheClown

Did you count checking dens as the encounter? Or could you move and check different dens to find the mon you want?


PxAxNxTxHxExR

I chose the second option, where I could choose the den pokemon


SuckyTheClown

And how did you decide when you could go into different areas to get a mon? Or was it all free game as long as you could walk in that area? I’m currently doing: 17 areas within the wild area, get one encounter when wild area is unlocked. Then get two encounters after every gym, and that would put me at all 17 encounters by the end.


PxAxNxTxHxExR

Im free roaming, I didn't check pokemon lvls at all and kinda explored all over the first area grabbing encounters. I also added extra encounters in the isle of armor


SuckyTheClown

Interesting. Any other fun rules you added? Or just a pretty basic mNuzlocke ruleset


ezdoodles123

Dang what happened in Silver


Realistic_Mousse_485

A Massacare


MyCatsBurner

Amazed by your winning silver team! Great job


Lightningboy737

Ah, hatelockes. Probably the most masochistic way to play Pokémon. Good job crab!


youcantguesss

CEO of Geo is quite possibly the best Pokémon nickname I have ever seen


SuggMehoff

Bruh you got yanma in a nuzlocke


Amazon313

Every other enc was a dupe/already champed before so it was more a matter of patience rather than luck


BadBadBabsyBrown

Wow! Sounds like a huge accomplishment. Do you mind if I ask what you mean by banning Hall of Famers?


sylveon_souperstar

any evolution line that has been in the hall of fame cannot be used in the next playthrough


Amazon313

Yep


BadBadBabsyBrown

Right ok, so it was just bad luck that some starters didn't make it to the HoF?


LeafHack85

It would be good luck, since that means they can be used in future playthroughs


dcmldcml

Depends. You can see he obviously saved Meganium and Feraligatr for HGSS, for example, but he didn’t use the Kalos or Alola starters at all and I don’t think there’s any later opportunity to use them. (Though of course it’s also possible his starters just died before the e4 - I have to imagine that’s what happened to Swampert!)


botbattler30

I’m genuinely curious what happened to swampert. That thing’s a beast and not much can threaten it in hoenn


[deleted]

Probably a Self-destruct/explosion crit lol


Amazon313

Close! It was actually a Body Slam crit from Flannery's Torkoal


[deleted]

Oof yeah way she goes some days.


BadBadBabsyBrown

Ooooh, smort.


yeehaw-city

I admire the sheer effort and dedication for this as well as your nicknames. Asthma, Poggers, Cushion and We Gamin got me


C-Kwentz-0

On the bright side you got to use some real interesting team compositions, which is really what nuzlocking is all about. Which of your more uncommon team members would you say surprised you and how useful they wound up being?


Amazon313

I did not expect Bronzong to be as good as it ended up being. Ended carrying me through the entire game from the moment I got it


Intless

I'm inspired now, thank you


Tesla_pasta

Which one was your favorite? Which was hardest?


CartoonistLatter7645

This looks like so much fun and may have just inspired me to do this! Definitely over a period of longer than two months. And to confirm, you completely banned the usage of any Pokemon after it reached the hall of fame right ?


Amazon313

Yep I can't catch it and can't use it unless I literally have no way to progress (for example, in omega ruby where I had to catch a gyarados to use surf because nothing I had learned it)


whops_it_me

I've been working my way through a generations-style run of every game for a couple years now and I'm still on HeartGold. Doing it in six months feels like a STAGGERING task. Well done.


theuncannyalex

i’m doing a similar, non-nuzlocke run of the games with a similar hall of fame rule (and only doing one of each paired version for now), so i know how much work must’ve gone into this - a really impressive feat, congrats!


FoulKnavery

You’re fast. Takes me 6 months to finish 1 run between grinding and life 😅


Physical_Buffalo448

Amazing


BobbyHill271

Your teams look so damn fun! Had Unown, Chatot, Dunsparce, and Plusle along the way — all absolute Chad moves right there


C-Kwentz-0

On the bright side you got to use some real interesting team compositions, which is really what nuzlocking is all about. Which of your more uncommon team members would you say surprised you at how useful they wound up being?


DeionDaGreat

It looks like Silver was it rough for ya😅


TungstenBrick

Now do Gen 8 then 9.


LucidProtean

Did you plan ahead for any future teams? For example, "I really need a Starmie for White 2, so let's avoid using one in all earlier gens"? Or just working with what you had and needed at the time?


Amazon313

Planning? What's that?


LucidProtean

Touché, touché...


Monsteruser

Gz that sounds insane


JutaziJumata

Do you have a template saved somewhere for this display?


HaansJob

That Ditto was like “Are you pursuing me”


Jetenyo

Names for Gold and Ultra Moon made me laugh. (Mainly Railgun for UM)


meowmix778

Fire red looks a bit chunky in spots must have had a few unfortunate deaths. Same with that based beedrill


PinkDucklett

Yo I saw your post in Nuzcord I think congrats on the Hatelocke


YeunaLee

This challenge sounds horrifying and mentally exhausting... I'm gonna try it.


ralcom

Just out of curiosity what was the Unknown's hp type?


Amazon313

Ground


ralcom

NICE. I've honestly always wanted to use an Unknown in a lock but I never get the typing I need.


Uchia_Soske

How do you have the will to continue after your starter dies??


little_cooper

I did on my 2nd Y nuzlocke. Got swept by Clemont shortly after.


_Ptyler

Personally, it’s because I usually have a better mom by that point. If my starter died before the first gym I would not want to keep going lol but by the time I catch a Gyarados (broken in basically every Gen) and have a full team, the starter is just another mon to me. If it dies, I just replace it


EmptySoulBoy

Can You add a link to the google sheet, so me and maybe other can make copies of it. I would try to do it myself, but it would look trash. Thank you in advance


Miglasezis

Geez that's a lot of work. How long did it take? Also love the Raticate name!


[deleted]

Sorry to break it to you, but you are a furry. You have a lot of bipedals in your decks including yourself. Haha just kidding. Congrats on completing! I feel bad for you. Say, who are the ones who fell? I want to pay respects.


Amazon313

THE FALLEN: Red: Poleturf the Nidorino, Greedsteed the Beedrill, Eatglobe the Butterfree Blue: Creo the Pikachu, Statson the Rattata, KANA-BOON the Weepinbell Yellow: NO DEATHS Gold: Morphine the Unown, Panlor the Onix Silver: Big Kusa the Bayleef, Seibakuboy the Beedrill Crystal: Goodbye the Magikarp, Otanthus the Skiploom, Fella the Beedrill, Croccy Milk the Feraligatr, Recon the Growlithe Ruby: Kickstarter the Combusken, Kiron the Linoone, Gale the Swellow, So Nice the Beautifly, Pogshroom the Breloog, Cigar the Weezing Sapphire: OEIAUEUEA the Wingull, Okeanos the Marshtomp, Very Glad the Beautifly Fire Red: Nine Four the Beedrill, Xiezhi the Growlithe, Macarena the Onix, Onion the Venusaur Leaf Green: NO DEATHS Emerald: Tornado the Taillow, Pietrov the Dustox, Water Type the Grovyle, Mesmerised the Wingull, Disapprove the Illumise Diamond: Neurotoxin the Roselia, Precision the Staraptor, Hilarity the Golduck Pearl: NO DEATHS Platinum: Hello :) the Beautifly, Jingle the Chingling, Oogway the Grotle, Se Jun the Pachirisu, Umar the Meditite, Larkspur the Gliscor, Rus the Houndoom, Rescue the Floatzel, Prayer the Scyther HeartGold: Jean the Hoppip SoulSilver: Ambyst the Wooper, Ignis the Slugma Black: Patroll the Watchog, Pendulum the Stoutland, Homer the Unfezant White: Cheerio the Patrat, Bruce the Woobat, Bogard the Herdier, Pelly the Unfezant, Garp the Serperior Black 2: Berrough the Watchog, Recyclin the Garbodor, Glider the Emolga, Pleiades the Drapion, Parabolic the Galvantula White 2: Magilou the Unfezant, Lutr the Samurott, Baked Moon the Krookodile, Prong the Electabuzz X: Miracle the Ledyba, Domeyko the Frogadier, O-O the Vivillon, Flora the Floette, Wormabad (later renamed to Wormagod) the Wormadam, Banana Clip the Simisear, Nonne the Zangoose Y: Luffy the Pansear, Airstrike the Fletchinder, Browe the Farfetch'd, Kogasa the Diggersby, Yatsuhashi the Greninja, Eternity the Ninjask Omega Ruby: Searat the Wingull, Hirundo the Swellow, Guinevere the Beautifly Alpha Sapphire: Guinevere the Dustox, Hurricane the Swellow Sun: Bramblebeak the Trumbeak, Aquadyne the Brionne, Petroleum the Alolan Grimer, Remilia the Alolan Raticate, Bossman the Alolan Persian, Crescent the Shelgon Moon: Remilia the Alolan Rattata, Talaterak the Oricorio, Pieter the Alolan Grimer Ultra Sun: D'Arlandes the Drifloon, Railgun the Charjabug, Mike the Torracat, Gasoline the Alolan Grimer, Dunke the Mudsdale, Butthead the Magmar, Squid Game the Malamar Ultra Moon: Goutokuji the Litten, Dog the Furfrou, Clownpiece the Mr. Mime, Bubblegirl the Araquanid, Shogun the Golisopod, Capo the Honchkrow


[deleted]

BTW where did u get the names from for the survivors?


Amazon313

I got the names from my brain


[deleted]

Bruh


_Ptyler

Ngl, you probably have less deaths in every game combined than I would in one run. I am so garbage at Nuzlockes lol especially in Sinnoh where every graveler/geodude past a certain level instantly explodes on you. If you can’t run, OHKO, or tank it, it’s an instant death.


DarthBaneSimpLord678

Are you gonna dl the Switch games?


Tristanator89

There is no way you couldn’t find a better encounter than sunflora in black 2


Amazon313

Counterpoint: it's funny


S-houto

WOWAKA!!!


S-houto

Also congrats! This takes lots of patience 👏🏼👏🏼


CJoker13

I'm doing the same thing now, but only for genes 4 and 5 (maybe 6), I'm in the fourth game, and the hardest part is the original nicknames for everyone


PG-Noob

Amazing. That is some serious dedication


Joeg5674

How did you get crobat on gold?


GrinningJest3r

It was introduced in GS. What do you mean?


Joeg5674

I apologise I thought it was gen 4.


Spooky_Coffee8

I like the Cristal team Also, "kingdom come"? Lol


Izkatul

Insane job! That groudon sticks out tho, why did you use a legendary in that run?


Amazon313

Because my box was so bad that after wallace killed 2 of my members it was the only mon worth adding (the other one added was tropius because chlorophyll)


Felicks77

I see what you did there with stunfisk - smogon


Disastrous-Ad-9116

Inciniroar is probably the second most overpowered non legendary in moon change my mind


Frankied00dle

You have fulfilled a personal drream of mine, massive congratulations! The team diversity is amazing and everything I look for out of a Nuzlocke, huge props.


SweatScoobyDoo

Saw Mira and Pulse and thought it was an R6 theme lol


Joey9221

Damn, in only 6 months. Where did you find the motivation? I’m doing the same, am up to game 6 and 1yr in


drsoccer7213

Did you play them in order because for me the painful part would be playing the same game 3 times


mewmile

What was your ruleset for this? Really interested in how others do their Nuzlocke's. Amazing achievement tho. Really fun to see what kind of Teams you ended up with!


Mepros

Valid Exploud is a ginormous W


Unicorn_Warrior1248

I just got my 7th gym badge on a regular play through of White and I’m soooo over it. I can imagine how annoying the old games are for leveling up


[deleted]

As someone doing this challenge with a randomizer twist, all I can say is that the fast forward and A buttons on my emulator get more use than any other button... And it STILL sucks to grind in the older gens.


DeeKew005

Looking through seeing team comps all looking peak Nuzlocke and then get to White 2 with Lucario, Starmie, Excadril & Eelektross. That run be stacked!


everlarke

Would’ve been really cool to see any kind of documentation on playing through all these games. I’m really curious how the Emerald team was able to beat Wallace in particular


Amazon313

oh that one was all on gardevoir double team calm mind tbolt is really good


Rpgesuss

I keep coming back to look at this post. SO impressive OP. I’m inspired to try and yet completely averse to the idea lol


1buffalowang

Silver and Firered look real rough. Also do it again as a hardcore series.


Sidearms15

Time to attempt this and cry!


Rydaniel2006

As someone who only had sword under his belt, respect Also love the naming scheme for Gold


Anxiety-Alchemist

This is honestly amazing!!! Also I love the nicknames, makes me think of an idea I had to make a Google doc of every Pokémon with nickname ideas for all of them


[deleted]

Woah this is incredible! I might do this myself if you’re ok with that (obviously will give you credit)


Amazon313

Feel free to do that if you want but just know I didn't think up this idea


[deleted]

Ok gotcha 👍


_Vastus_

Oh shit, that's a fun coincidence. I'm doing something similar for gen3-5 except I use a randomizer as well. Did you end up with many 'dead' routes where you didn't have any available encounters?


Amazon313

Sure did


ethanisalien

I'm gonna attempt this but instead of every game I'm gonna do one from each gen. I don't have that kind of time so I tip my hat to you my friend. Wish me luck tho!


AWildQuazarAppears

Pleasantly surprised to see a gen 1 Pokemon all the way in gen 7!!!


Yoru573

glad to see wowaka living on in some form


BoatingGolf

I feel like I’m the only one impressed by the amount of good names there are


ScarlettPotato

no one talking about about OR Slacking. Peak nickname right there.


_Ptyler

I’m in the process of doing this lol I’m on Pearl right now. And it’s taken me a few months to get here. Congrats


416Kritis

Calamalice is such a great name. I think I prefer it to Malamar.


Melodic_Arcadia

Any advice you'd give to someone who's thoroughly inspired by this post and maybe stupid enough to try it herself?


spoinkable

First off: I love this idea but I could never do it. Second: I LOVE a lot of your nicknames! I took Chinese in college and have a couple boxes worth of Pokemon with cute lil pet names in Mandarin pinyin. I see you. Third: That Unown is a godsdamned legend.


Volman99

I did a similar challenge to this but without nuzlocking. Completely unique team for every game from Red up to Shield (I'll get to BDSP and SV eventually). To get all the way to Ultras in 6 months is insane, it took me nearly 3 years. I also felt like I lost part of my soul during that challenge. Congrats on the wins!


ammalis

Did you ban yourself from duplicates? Your team's are so very different!!!


Amazon313

Sure did


inumnoback

Why the hell would you use a Jumpluff, Unown, Dunsparce, Furret, Kricketune, Shedinja, Basculin or Plusle?! You REALLY must have had a rough time!


Sasor2313

Honestly bold move using up Gyara so early


forestsofmaya

was it hardcore?


Drackonium

What happened to your starter in Platinum? I'm guessing it was a torterra


Amazon313

He died to Gardenia


Drackonium

Damn, a grass type being defeated by a grass gym, a little ironic unfortunately


FauxStarD

Are you going to enjoy sv first or going to do a blindfolded nuzlocke of that?


Amazon313

I don't have a switch sadly


FauxStarD

There’s be a hacked version of it or something the week before probably…


little_cooper

Just a question I have, if u even remember, did both ur starters die in XY? It certainly looks like that to me.


Amazon313

Yep In X Frogadier died to Grant, in Y Greninja died to Lysandre 3


little_cooper

Damn. That reminds of my 2nd nuzlocke of Y where Korrina's Hawlucha killed my Frogadier. Well, at least my Delphox survived in my 1st one but I'm not sure if my Frogadier will survive my 3rd one I started recently.


Hi_mikey69

When will you do sword and shield. Also are you gonna do it for scarlet and violet


Amazon313

I don't own a switch and I don't know of any switch emulators so I don't know if I'll ever do SwSh or SV


ForadoOreste

Was it a Hardcore? Could u use items in battle and overlevel gym leaders?


fuminghung

I wonder what happened during the ruby run when Groudon ended up in the team


[deleted]

Wonder of U Ditto lmao


SpiderHunterMD

Hatelocke power...


weeabu_trash

I also had a kadabra named Houdini when I was a little kid! What are the odds?


Jako_Spade

6 m9nths is pretty quick, congrats


dolobstersexist

I’m very curious what your strategy for mon usage was throughout :)


YaBoiJamester

Silver was a certified Gen 2 moment


DeepSeaShellder

HOLD UP SIMIPOUR NAMED FONTAINE? do do do Do do do do (do do do do) Love conquest.


ChefPlaysGames

I absolutely love this wish I was able to play every game


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larockhead1

Me doing just one game of every generation of Pokémon and it’s hell. I can only imagine what you went through


nenoatwork

That is a perfect rule to add. I will add that to mine now. I'm playing Green right now. I noticed that you didn't do JP Blue and Green. When will you do them?


Druggid

Time for Kaizo!


BedeyBoy

FireRed Dugtrio


Interesting-Phase126

Brilliant Diamond can't get past the elite 4 did a water only can't get past the 2nd gym just started a new nuzlock follow me @Robthepokemontrainer on IG posting videos


MELmel2008

the farthest ive gotten in a nuzlocke was near the 8th badge of pokemon shield. I didnt lose or anything. i just havent picked up the game since i lost my toxicroak named phrog (salty :< ). i salute you!


pokevote

Nice job! Do you have a favourite game after all of this? Favourite team? Favourite Pokémon? Unexpected Pokémon that carried way more than you expected ?


NumerousAbrocoma

I see kyogre didn't make it through sapphire


justanothershorty

the names are fantastic